The Sferastotazisiv (a Old Sith compound word derived from sfera meaning "field" or "plain" and Stotazisiv meaning "of the Builders"[1]) was the capital city of Azarac. As it contained the Temple of Azarac, the seat of power of the daritha of the Tsis, the city served as one of the two capital cities of the Tsis Worlds, the other being the Miestasasmenysiv on Lune.
The city, as its name implied, was built on an expansive plain close at hand to a river. This location was first settled by the Rakata after their successful terraformation of Azarac. As Rakata settlers grew in number, the city sprawled across most of the plain, and hosted a series of architectural wonders including the great Temple of Azarac, wherein dwelt the Rakata Predor and his chief officers. The expulsion of the Rakata at the hands of their Red Sith slaves and the subsequent Rakata orbital bombardment in 25,200 BBY resulted in the destruction of some two-thirds of the city, though the Temple and much of the downtown district escaped unharmed.
With the rise of the Tsis civilization some twenty millennia later, the ruins that remained of the Rakata settlement were preserved and restored by the Tsis. In the intervening millennia since their defeat of the Rakata, the primitive Tsis had built their own villages in the ruins of the Sferastotazisiv, which were expanded and augmented as they developed an industrial civilization. By the Great Galactic War, the city had once again reached a size reminiscent of that it possessed during the era of the Infinite Empire and served as the capital city of the planet.