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🏛️ Samosata-Melitene

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🏛️ Samosata-Melitene
Roman frontier settlement in eastern Anatolia


🕐 1 min read · Updated 16 Mar 2026 at 00:05
📌 Fast Facts
  • Located in Malatya Province, southeastern Türkiye
  • Roman military and administrative center on the Euphrates frontier
  • Occupied from the 1st to 7th centuries CE
  • Largely unexcavated; remains visible as surface archaeology

Samosata-Melitene was a Roman settlement positioned along the Euphrates River in what is now eastern Anatolia. The site ...

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