Çukurtaş
Çukurtaş is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Îzol tribe and had a population of 305 in 2021. The hamlets of Kazanlı and Kovalı are attached to the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 305 residents
- Description: village in Kahta, Adıyaman, Turkey
- Also known as: “Askeran”, “Askeran Mezraa”, “Cuekuertas”, “Çükürtaş”, and “Çukurtaş, Kahta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karakuş Tumulus.
Karakuş Tumulus
Archaeological site
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Karakuş Tumulus is a funerary monument—a hierothesion—for Queen Isias and Princesses Antiochis and Aka I of Commagene, built by Mithridates II of Commagene in 30–20 BCE, near the modern village of Çukurtaş in Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taşlıca and Bağözü.
Taşlıca
Village
Taşlıca is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Îzol tribe and had a population of 313 in 2021. The hamlet of Karabağ is attached to Taşlıca.
Bağözü
Village
Bağözü is a village in the Kâhta District of Adıyaman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Reşwan tribe and had a population of 98 in 2021. Bağözü is situated 2½ km southeast of Çukurtaş.
Yelkovan
Village
Yelkovan is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Reşwan tribe and had a population of 646 in 2021. Yelkovan is situated 4 km southwest of Çukurtaş.
Çukurtaş
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Kahta, Adıyaman Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.86351° or 37° 51′ 49″ northLongitude
38.56754° or 38° 34′ 3″ eastPopulation
305Elevation
805 metres (2,641 feet)Open location code
8G9WVH79+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2312307524OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
323089Wikidata ID
Q4832041
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Yoruba—“Çukurtaş” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Чукурташ”
- Chinese: “Çukurtaş”
- Dimli (individual language): “Merkık”
- Dutch: “Çukurtaş”
- German: “Çukurtaş”
- Malay: “Çukurtaş, Kahta”
- Malay: “Çukurtaş”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Çukurtaş”
- Persian: “چوکورتاش (کاهتا)”
- Persian: “چوکورتاش”
- Tatar: “Чукурташ”
- Turkish: “Çukurtaş, Kâhta”
- Turkish: “Çukurtaş”
- Uzbek: “Çukurtaş”
- Vietnamese: “Çukurtaş, Kahta”
- Vietnamese: “Çukurtaş”
- Yoruba: “Çukurtaş”
- “Çukurtaş”
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