Samosata

ancient city of Commagene, in modern-day Turkey
Place ancient_city Q1026347
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Samosata

Summary

Samosata is an ancient city[1]. Samosata draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_city category, ranking #113 of 953).[2]

Key Facts

  • Samosata is located in Adıyaman Province[3].
  • Samosata is in the country of Turkey[4].
  • Samosata's image is recorded as Samosata Philipp II Rv.JPG[5].
  • Samosata's instance of is recorded as ancient city[6].
  • Samosata's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[7].
  • Samosata's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 1825160546914810240009[8].
  • Samosata's GND ID is recorded as 1221277677[9].
  • Samosata's locator map image is recorded as Mesopotamia and Syria Parthian era-en.svg[10].
  • Samosata's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16492464c[11].
  • Samosata's Commons category is recorded as Samosata[12].
  • Samosata's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.57955, 'lon': 38.481316666667}[13].
  • Samosata's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/022ptr[14].
  • Samosata's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Southeastern Anatolia Region[15].
  • Samosata's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Samosata[16].
  • Samosata's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0058451[17].
  • Samosata's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[18].
  • Samosata's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[19].
  • Samosata's replaced by is recorded as Samsat[20].
  • Samosata's capital of is recorded as Kingdom of Commagene[21].
  • Samosata's capital of is recorded as Samosata Theme[22].
  • Samosata's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Samsat[23].
  • Samosata's category for people born here is recorded as Q9226997[24].
  • Samosata's GeoNames ID is recorded as 11395827[25].
  • Samosata's Pleiades ID is recorded as 658587[26].
  • Samosata's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'hy', 'text': 'Արշամաշատ'}[27].

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Geography

Samosata is in the country of Turkey[4]. Samosata is located in Adıyaman Province[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include ancient city[6] and archaeological site[7].

Why It Matters

Samosata draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_city category, ranking #113 of 953).[2] Samosata has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Samosata is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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