The Expedition to Samosata was undertaken by the future Baldwin I of Jerusalem following his ascension to co-regent of Edessa as a part of the First Crusade...

Samsat (Kurdish: Samîsad, Ottoman Turkish صمصاد Semisat), formerly Samosata (Ancient Greek: Σαμόσατα) is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey...

14–20 February. Baldwin of Boulogne undertakes an unsuccessful Expedition to Samosata to conquer the city of Samsat. 9 March. Baldwin of Boulogne establishes...

1951, pp. 206–207, Baldwin and Thoros. Runciman 1951, p. 205, Expedition against Samosata. Taef El-Azhari (2006). "Balak (d. 1124)". The Crusades – An...

career, including at Tarsus and Samosata. Goell's work in Turkey "nearly single-handedly opened up ancient Commagene to the world". Theresa Goell was born...

II of Armenia to prepare a large army, but without revealing its purpose; he sent Lucillianus to Samosata in the upper Euphrates valley to build a fleet...

Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to subdue Samosata; after Safwan and Maslama captured several villages and forts in Samosata's vicinity, the townspeople negotiated...

Terentius requested—to the emperor's ire—that a church be given for the use of the orthodox Christians. His daughters were nuns at Samosata. Ammianus Marcellinus...

inscriptions, along with Samosata, Marash and Doliche. It lay on the route from the capital of Samosata over the Taurus mountains to Melitene. On account...

expedition at the Council of Clermont. He encouraged military support for Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and called for an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem...

fleet of 50 warships, and more than 1,000 transport boats at Samosata, for his expedition in Persia against King Shapur II the Great. An earthquake strikes...

of Lusignan, launched an expedition to reoccupy Tortosa. Six hundred troops, including about 150 Templars, were ferried to Ruad in preparation for a...

army in a successful expedition against the Arabs, reaching Samosata. In 778, he took part in a successful large-scale expedition against Germanikeia under...

was put to flight, with Aban escaping to Kaysum near Samosata, where he barricaded himself. Abdallah ibn Ali abandoned the Byzantine campaign to confront...

according to William of Tyre, and encouraged his retainers to marry local women. Thoros' rich treasury enabled him to employ mercenaries and to buy Samosata from...

at the border between the Byzantine Empire and the Emirate of Aleppo at Samosata, headed by Emperor Nikephoros II and Sayf al-Dawla, the Emir of Aleppo...

and thence headed to northern Syria. After defeating an Arab army from Antioch, he raided as far as Samosata before returning safely to the Empire in the...

the 2nd century CE, Lucian of Samosata discussed history and travel writers who added embellished, fantastic stories to their works. The travel genre...

the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles. Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) gives the same story but names the runner Philippides...

and Paul of Samosata comes from Athanasius of Alexandria's fourth-century History of the Arians. According to Eusebius, Paul preferred to be called "ducenarius"...

plundered his way through the emirate of Melitene and the Paulician lands to Samosata and Amida in Upper Mesopotamia. After penetrating deeper into Arab territory...

He remained in captivity until the prisoner exchange of 23 June 966 at Samosata, when he was released along with other Hamdanid prisoners, including the...

Byzantine defeats in Cappadocia followed by the destruction of Melitene, Samosata and Zapetra by vengeful Byzantine troops in 837. Al-Mu'tasim however gained...

the Byzantines held an exchange of prisoners at Samosata. In October 966, Nikephoros led an expedition to raid Amida, Dara and Nisibis, then marched towards...

Numayrid emirs continued to hold isolated fortresses in Upper Mesopotamia, such as Qal'at an-Najm and Sinn Ibn Utayr near Samosata until the early 12th century...

Armenian townspeople to Samosata. After the Armenians started to move to Kaisun, Baldwin allowed those who remained in Samosata to return to Edessa in early...

Egypt, but none of these plans came to fruition. Instead, Philip decided to join Raymond III of Tripoli’s expedition to attack the Saracen stronghold of...

was held at Samosata. He ransomed many Muslim captives at great cost, only to see them go over to Dizbar's forces. Sayf al-Dawla resolved to confront the...

animals and ran terrified to Egypt; Heracles became a fawn. In the Dialogues of the Gods, a satirical work by Lucian of Samosata, Heracles and another recently...

built of over 1,000 ships at Samosata in order to supply his army for a march down the Euphrates and of 50 pontoon ships to facilitate river crossings....