Samosata

settlement · 9000 BC – 2000 AD

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.

Samosata
Coordinates
37.52576, 38.53036
Also known as
Eski Samsat (tr), III Gallica (Hadr.), III Gallica (Hadrian) (la), Kummuhu, Kummukhu, Kummuha, Kummuhi (akk), Kummuhāja, Kummuhāya (akk), Kummuḫu, Kummukhu (akk), Kumuh (akk), Kumuhhu (akk), Kumuhhāja, Kumuhhāya (akk), Kumuhu, Kumuha, Kumuhi (akk), Kumuhāja, Kumuhāya (akk), Samosat[a] (la), Samsat (tr), Samsat Hüyük, Samsat Huyuk, Samsat Hüyüğü, Samsat Huyughu, Samsat Hüyük, Samsat Höyük, Samsat Höyüğü (tr), Sumaisāt, Sumaisāṭ, Sumaisat (arb), Sümeysāṭ (ota), VI Flavia firma (Diokl.) garrison, VI Flavia firma (Diocletian) (ka), XVI Flavia firma garrison, XVI Flavia garrison (ka), Şümeysāṭ (ota), Šamošat, Shamoshat (syr), Σαμόσατα (grc), Ḫaḫḫu, Khakkhu (hit), Ṣamsat, Samsat (ota), Ṣamṣat, Samsat (ota)
Dating
attested

Sources

See Samosata on the map →

Samosata — Ancient Maps