Kemah

Kemah referred to generally as Gamakh, Kamacha or Kamachon is a town and locale of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Kemah is a town with a present populace of 2141, 2010 est. The town is found nearly in the focal point of Erzincan Province. The necropolis of Armenia's Arsacid Dynasty was situated in Kemah, including the tomb of Tiridates III who was instrumental in the transformation of the Armenian individuals to Christianity.

Amid the early Middle Ages, Kemah was a deliberately imperative fringe stronghold in the outskirt wars between the Byzantines and the Ummayads and Abbasids. It previously tumbled to the Muslims in 679 and changed hands as often as possible until the mid-9^th century. Attack of Kamacha 766, when Byzantine control was united. As per Constantine VII, in the late 9^th century Kemah shaped a tourma in the thema of Koloneia. Under Emperor Leo VI the Wise, Kemah was combined with the area of Keltzene to shape the new thema of Mesopotamia.

Little is known about the site from there on, aside from that it was the seat of a priestly district named "Armenia". The Byzantines lost control of the zone following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Kemah was the scene of slaughters amid the Armenian Genocide. In one example, 25,000 Armenians were killed in one day by diverting the exploited people from a lofty chasm and into the Euphrates river.