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ID: 7030346
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Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Samsat (inhabited place)  Samsat (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 038 31 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 38.5167  decimal degrees

Note: Village in southeastern Turkey, on the upper Euphrates River. The ancient fortified city guarded an important crossing point of the river on the east-west trade route; as such it was commercially and strategically important. Probably of Hittite origin, the city was incorporated into the Assyrian Empire in 708 BCE. Later it came under the Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene; it was its capital until it was surrendered to Rome in 72 CE. It was captured by the Sasanian king of Persia and fell to the invading Arabs ca. 640. Samsat briefly served as an administrative military district of the Byzantine Empire in the 10th century but was already in a state of decline when it came under the Seljuq Turks two centuries later. Samsat was the birthplace of the writer Lucian (2nd century CE) and St. Lucian (died 312).

Names:
Samsat (preferred,C,V)
Samosata (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Türkiye (nation)  ........  Türkiye (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Adıyaman (province)  ............  Adıyaman (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Samsat (inhabited place)  ................  Samsat (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Türkiye (nation)  ........  Türkiye (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Commagene (general region)  ............  Commagene (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Samsat (inhabited place)  ................  Samsat (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Assyria (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Assyria (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Samsat (inhabited place)  ............  Samsat (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Byzantine Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Byzantine Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Samsat (inhabited place)  ........  Samsat (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
village (C)
historic site (C)
city (H)
capital (H)
fortified settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Samosata..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 197
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 15 July 2004
Samsat..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 15 July 2004
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 197
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 15 July 2004
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 15 July 2004

 

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