Gökçedam
Gökçedam is a village in the Osmaniye District in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. Its population is 586. The village is inhabited by Turkmens. It was the birthplace of the famous Turkish novelist of Kurdish origin Yaşar Kemal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 542 residents
- Description: village in Osmaniye Merkez, Turkey
- Also known as: “Amuda”, “Amudan”, “Goekcdam”, “Gökçdam”, and “Hamidiye”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amouda Castle and Hemite relief.
Amouda Castle
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The castle of Amouda Crusader castle, formerly in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and today close to the village of Gökçedam in the Turkish Province of Osmaniye.
Hemite relief
Ruins
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hemite relief is a Hittite rock relief at Gökçedam in the central district of Osmaniye Province in Turkey, about 20 km northwest of the provincial capital of Osmaniye. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Günlüce and Burhanlı.
Günlüce
Village
Günlüce is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 196. Günlüce is situated 2½ km southwest of Gökçedam.
Burhanlı
Village
Burhanlı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 279. Burhanlı is situated 4½ km southwest of Gökçedam.
Kırmıtlı
Village
Kırmıtlı is a village in the Osmaniye District of Osmaniye Province, Turkey. Its population is 767. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. It lies along Ceyhan River. Kırmıtlı is situated 5 km southeast of Gökçedam.
Gökçedam
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Osmaniye, Osmaniye Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.19068° or 37° 11′ 27″ northLongitude
36.09148° or 36° 5′ 29″ eastPopulation
542Elevation
66 metres (217 feet)Open location code
8G9R53RR+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3248798962OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
312765Wikidata ID
Q1559300
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Gökçedam” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ամուտա”
- Armenian: “Գյոկչեդամ”
- Azerbaijani: “Göyçədam”
- Belarusian: “Гёкчэдам”
- Central Kurdish: “گۆکچەدام”
- Chechen: “Гоькчедам”
- Czech: “Gökçedam”
- Danish: “Gökçedam”
- Dutch: “Gökçedam”
- German: “Gökcedam”
- German: “Gökçedam”
- German: “Hemite”
- Greek: “Γκιοκτσεντάμ”
- Italian: “Gökçedam”
- Malay: “Gökçedam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gökçedam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hemite”
- Russian: “Гёкчедам”
- Silesian: “Gökçedam”
- Slovak: “Gökçedam”
- Swedish: “Gökçedam”
- Tatar: “Гөкчедам”
- Turkish: “Gökçedam, Osmaniye”
- Turkish: “Gökçedam”
- Turkish: “Hemite”
- Uzbek: “Gökçedam”
- Vietnamese: “Gökçedam, Osmaniye”
- Vietnamese: “Gökçedam”
- “Gökçedam”
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