Samsat
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Samsat (, Ottoman Turkish صمصاد Semisat), formerly Samosata () is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river. It is the seat of Samsat District. The town is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Samsat
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Samsat Turkey.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Adıyaman
- Turkey place.district
- Samsat
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Halil Fırat
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 610
- Turkey place.population_total
- 3790
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.established_date
- 12th c. BC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Samsat
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Adıyaman Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Population
- 7893
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Body of water
- Atatürk Reservoir
- Official website
- www.samsatbelediyesi.com
- Image
- Samsat Turkey.jpg
- Licence plate code
- 02
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- postal code
- 02802
- urban population
- 3520
- rural population
- 3103
- topic's main category
- Category:Samsat
- Commons category
- Samsat
- replaces
- Samosata
- native label
- Samsat
- described by source
- Oxford Classical Dictionary
- name in kana
- サムサット
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Antiquity
- Medieval history
- Modern times
- In Christianity
- Archaeology
- References
- Sources
Samsat (, Ottoman Turkish صمصاد Semisat), formerly Samosata () is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river. It is the seat of Samsat District. The town is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe.
Halil Fırat from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected mayor in the local elections in March 2019. The current Kaymakam is Halid Yıldız.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samsat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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