Samsat

Samsat
Municipality
Samsat is located in Turkey
Samsat
Samsat
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°34′46″N 38°28′53″E / 37.57944°N 38.48139°E / 37.57944; 38.48139
CountryTurkey
ProvinceAdıyaman
DistrictSamsat
Established12th c. BC
Government
 • MayorHalil Fırat (AKP)
Elevation
610 m (2,000 ft)
Population
 (2022)[1]
3,790
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Websitewww.samsat.bel.tr

Samsat (Kurdish: Samîsad,[2] Ottoman Turkish صمصاد Semisat[3]), formerly Samosata (Ancient Greek: Σαμόσατα) is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river. It is the seat of Samsat District.[4] The town is populated by Kurds of the Bezikan tribe.[5][6]

Halil Fırat from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected mayor in the local elections in March 2019.[7] The current Kaymakam is Halid Yıldız.[8]

Samsat was the ancient capital of Kingdom of Commagene. The current site of Samsat is comparatively new, however, being rebuilt in 1989 when the old town of Samosata was flooded during the construction of the Atatürk Dam.[9] As of 2018, reconstruction process had not yet been fully completed.[10] An ancient tell nearby dating back to Paleolithic times has survived to the current day.

Its population was 3,790 in 2022, up from 3,520 in 2017.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜIK. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ^ Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56.
  3. ^ Sezen, Tahir (2006). Osmanlı yer adları: alfabetik sırayla. Yayın. Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. s.v. Samsat, p. 430. ISBN 978-975-19-3945-6. OCLC 133108331.
  4. ^ İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  5. ^ Aşiretler raporu (in Turkish) (3rd ed.). Kaynak Yayınları. 2014. p. 14.
  6. ^ Orhan, Mehmet (2020). "Research Methodology in Kurdish Studies. Interactions between Fieldwork, Epistemology and Theory". Anthropology of the Middle East. 15 (1): 8 and 17. doi:10.3167/ame.2020.150102.
  7. ^ "Adıyaman Samsat Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  8. ^ "T.C. Samsat Kaymakamlığı". www.samsat.gov.tr. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  9. ^ Samsat, Gezilecek Yerler.
  10. ^ Samsat’ta kalıcı konutların temelleri atılıyor.