[1] The current mayor is Ahmet Kürşad Apaydın from the Great Unity Party (BBP).

[3] Kangal was known in the time of emperor Diocletian under the name Euspena and later during the Byzantine Empire as Spynin.

The Byzantine general Eustathios Argyros was buried here in the monastery of St Elizabeth which had been constructed by his grandfather Leon.

[5] Kangal has a dry-summer continental climate (Köppen: Dsb).

This geographical article about a location in Sivas Province, Turkey is a stub.