 The name appears as "Savatra" on the coins, while "Sabatra" is found in the "Tabula", and "Soatra" in Strabo.The town was situated in an arid region on the road from Laodicea Combusta (now Ladik) to Archelais (now Aksaray), near the village of Souverek, in what was formerly the Ottoman vilayet of Koniah