Samsat
Samsat, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,990 residents
- Description: district and town in Turkey
- Also known as: “Samosata”, “Samsat, Turkey”, “Şamuşad”, and “Sumeysat”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yarımbağ and Uzuntepe.
Yarımbağ
Village
Yarımbağ is a village in the Samsat District of Adıyaman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe and had a population of 353 in 2021. The hamlet of İnceali is attached to the village.
Uzuntepe
Village
Uzuntepe is a village in the Samsat District of Adıyaman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe and had a population of 424 in 2021. The hamlet of Ağaköy is attached to Uzuntepe. Uzuntepe is situated 2½ km north of Samsat.
Ovacık
Village
Photo: Kenanertan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ovacık is a village in the Samsat District of Adıyaman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe and had a population of 116 in 2021. Ovacık is situated 4 km southwest of Samsat.
Samsat
- Category: locality
- Location: Samsat District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.5785° or 37° 34′ 43″ northLongitude
38.48092° or 38° 28′ 51″ eastPopulation
7,990Elevation
587 metres (1,926 feet)Open location code
8G9WHFHJ+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 303257135OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
301943Wikidata ID
Q667098
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Samsat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سامسات”
- Arabic: “صمصاد”
- Armenian: “Սամսատ”
- Asturian: “Samsat (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Samsat”
- Bulgarian: “Самсат”
- Catalan: “Samsat”
- Cebuano: “Samsat”
- Central Kurdish: “سەمیساد”
- Chechen: “Самсат”
- Chinese: “Samsat”
- Chinese: “萨姆萨特”
- Chinese: “薩姆薩特”
- Czech: “Samsat”
- Danish: “Samsat”
- Dimli (individual language): “Semsat”
- Dutch: “Samsat”
- Finnish: “Samsat”
- French: “Samosate”
- French: “Samsat”
- German: “Samsat”
- Greek: “Σαμόσατα”
- Greek: “Σάμσατ”
- Hebrew: “סאמסאט”
- Irish: “Samsat”
- Italian: “Samsat”
- Japanese: “サムサット”
- Japanese: “サムサト”
- Japanese: “サムスッタ”
- Japanese: “サモサタ”
- Kurdish: “Semîsad”
- Lak: “Самсат”
- Malay: “Samsat, Turki”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Samsat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samsat”
- Norwegian: “Samsat”
- Ossetian: “Самсат”
- Persian: “سامسات”
- Polish: “Samsat”
- Portuguese: “Samessate”
- Portuguese: “Samîsad”
- Portuguese: “Samissade”
- Portuguese: “Samsat”
- Portuguese: “Sansate”
- Portuguese: “Semisat”
- Romanian: “Samsat, Turkey”
- Romanian: “Samsat”
- Russian: “Самсат”
- Serbian: “Самсат”
- Slovenian: “Samsat”
- Swahili: “Samsat, Turkey”
- Tatar: “Самсат”
- Turkish: “Samsat”
- Urdu: “سامسات”
- Uzbek: “Samsat”
- Vietnamese: “Samsat”
- Western Mari: “Самсат”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سامساٹ”
- “Samsat”
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