Samsat District is a

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Adıyaman Province Adıyaman Province (, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The capital is Adıyaman. Its area is 7,337 km2, and its population is 635,169 (2022). The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdi ...

of Turkey. Its seat is the town

Samsat 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.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Its area is 319 km², and its population is 7,313 (2021). The district was established in 1960. A survey from 2006 estimated that

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

constituted 96% of the population of the district.

Geography

The new Samsat district is a

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surrounded on the three sides by the

Atatürk Reservoir The Atatürk Reservoir () is a reservoir on the Euphrates, created by the Atatürk Dam in Turkey. It is located between Adıyaman, Şanlıurfa, and Diyarbakır provinces. The reservoir has a surface area of 817 km2 and a volume of 48.5 cubic k ...

. The distance from the sea to the city centre is 470 km. The district is a plain that descends to the south. In the hot summers and dry winters, while the Mediterranean climate is warm and rainy, it is similar to the South East Anatolian climate due to the low relative humidity. However, due to the influence of the Atatürk Reservoir in recent years, humidity has increased relatively.

Composition

There is 1

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in Samsat District: *

Samsat 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.villages A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

in Samsat District:Köy
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 18 December 2022. * Akdamar () * Bağarası () * Bayırlı * Çiçek * Doğanca () * Gölpınar * Göltarla * Kırmacık () * Kızılöz () * Kovanoluk () * Kuştepe () * Ovacık * Taşkuyu () * Tepeönü () * Uzuntepe () * Yarımbağ ()

References

Districts of Adıyaman Province * {{Adıyaman-geo-stub