Historical place profile
Samosata
An ancient city on the Euphrates River's West bank, established perhaps as early as the Hittite period. Its ruins, known in modern times as Samsat (Turkey), were submerged following the construction of the Atatürk Dam in the early 1990s. The modern village of Samsat was relocated and is not coincident with the ancient site.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:658587
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:658587
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.525756, 38.530357
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city on the Euphrates River's West bank, established perhaps as early as the Hittite period. Its ruins, known in modern times as Samsat (Turkey), were submerged following the construction of the Atatürk Dam in the early 1990s. The modern village of Samsat was relocated and is not coincident with the ancient site.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 H1 Samosata
Source and reuse
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Research path
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