Arsamosata was a city in
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
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SopheneFor the kingdom, please see Kingdom of Sophene.Sophene was a province of the Armenian Kingdom and of the Roman Empire, located in the south-west of the kingdom. It currently lies in modern-day southeastern Turkey....
near the
EuphratesThe Euphrates is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
. It was founded by King
Arsames IArsames I was a king of Sophene and the son of Sames. Arsames built the cities of Arsamosata in Sophene and Arsameia , in Commagene. He was succeeded by his son Orontes IV in Armenia and by his son Xerxes of Armenia at Sophene, who might have been the son of Arsames II.-See also:* Commagene* List...
of the
Orontid DynastyThe Orontid Dynasty was the first known Armenian dynasty. The Orontids established their supremacy over Armenia around the time of the Scythian and Median invasion in the 6th century BC....
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Arsamosata was a city in
ArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n
SopheneFor the kingdom, please see Kingdom of Sophene.Sophene was a province of the Armenian Kingdom and of the Roman Empire, located in the south-west of the kingdom. It currently lies in modern-day southeastern Turkey....
near the
EuphratesThe Euphrates is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
. It was founded by King
Arsames IArsames I was a king of Sophene and the son of Sames. Arsames built the cities of Arsamosata in Sophene and Arsameia , in Commagene. He was succeeded by his son Orontes IV in Armenia and by his son Xerxes of Armenia at Sophene, who might have been the son of Arsames II.-See also:* Commagene* List...
of the
Orontid DynastyThe Orontid Dynasty was the first known Armenian dynasty. The Orontids established their supremacy over Armenia around the time of the Scythian and Median invasion in the 6th century BC....
.
The city has been identified with the modern Kharput (
ElazığElâzığ is a city in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey and the seat of Elâzığ Province. It has a population of266,495 according to the 2000 census, and the plain on which the city extends has an altitude of 1067 metres....
). It is not to be confused with
SamosataSamosata was an ancient city on the right bank of the Euphrates whose ruins existed at the modern city of Samsat, Adıyaman Province, Turkey until the site was flooded by the newly-constructed Atatürk Dam....
.