Test site. Anything you add or change here may be removed, and won't carry over to the live site.

← Return to gazetteer

Simisso

Ancient name
Amisos
Modern name
Samsun
Modern country
Turkey
Simisso is a port on the southern shore of the Black Sea, between Sinope and Vatiza. It was briefly a Genoese colony in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, but was conquered by the Ottomans in 1420. Campbell #1277; Gordeev 79–80.
Coordinates
41.29, 36.33
World Historical Gazetteer
https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364342

The toponym Simisso appears in La Sfera in the following places:

04.31.08 04.33.07

Click on any citation to view it in context in the edition.

Map of the location P129

Variant spellings of Simisso in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
Samisoe Ashb7
sim[issoe] Chig2
SIMI[...] Ashb3
simis[so] Pal6
Simiso Fo, Med3, Par3, Vat2
simiso Fn8, ME2, Pal8, Ricc12
SIMISO Wie1
Simiso[...] Ricc17
Simisoe Ashb7, Cap1, He1, Marc2, NYPL2
SimiSoe Ashb7
simisoe Marc1, Yale4
simiss[...] NYPL3
simisso Barb3, Borg, Chig1, Con1, Fn9, He3, Pad1, Per2, Pnc3, Ricc1, Ricc8, Ricc9, Urb1
Simisso BL01, BL02, Barb4, Con4, Cors2, Cs1, Laur3, Magl2, Med2, Morg, NB, New, Par2, Pnc4, Pnc5, Ricc13, Ricc14, Ricc15, Ricc6, Vat3
Simissoa Con3
Simissoe Luc2, Par4, Parm2
simissoe Bal, Fn6, Laur5, Pal5, Tre
Simisto Clas2
Sinisso Ricc11, Ro2
Zimiso Spe
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Simisso.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/simisso/.