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Arsamosata
Arsamosata was an ancient city of Sophene in the valley of the Arsanias (Murat) river, a tributary of the Euphrates, east of modern Elazığ in Turkey. Founded by the Orontid king Arsames in the 3rd century BCE, it was a royal seat of Sophene and later a fortress and bishopric contested by Romans, Armenians, Byzantines and Arabs.
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