Samsat District is a district of Adıyaman Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Samsat. Its area is 319 km, and its population is 7,313 (2021). The district was established in 1960.
A survey from 2006 estimated that Kurds constituted 96% of the population of the district.
Samsat (Kurdish: Samîsad, Ottoman Turkish صمصاد Semisat), formerly Samosata (Ancient Greek: Σαμόσατα) is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river. It is the seat of Samsat District. The town is populated by Kurds of the Bêzikan tribe.
Halil Fırat from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected mayor in the local elections in March 2019. The current Kaymakam is Halid Yıldız.