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Gökçedam (also known as Hemite) is a village in the Osmaniye District in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. [1] [2] Its population is 586 (2022). [3] The village is inhabited by Turkmens. [4] It was the birthplace of the famous Turkish novelist of Kurdish origin Yaşar Kemal. [5]
Gökçedam, Osmaniye ilinin Merkez ilçesine bağlı bir köydür. Tarihçe. Köyün adı, 870 yılı kayıtlarında El- ˁAmûdeyn, 1163 yılı ...
Gökçedam Köyü, Turkey Previous Next The castle of Amouda is a Crusader castle, formerly in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and today in the Turkish Province of Osmaniye.
- Gökçedam Köyü, Turkey
In 1922, Yaşar Kemal was born in the village of Hemite -now called Gökçedam- as Kemal Sadik Gökçeli, to a family of Kurdish farmers. His mother, Nigar, and his father, Sadi, had been moving ...
Apr 7, 2019 · Just outside of the village of Gökçedam, on the north bank of the Ceyhan river, is a rather humble castle known as Hemite Castle and sometimes referred to as Amuda (or Amouda) Castle. When this hilltop was first fortified is unknown but it was given by the Armenian King to the Teutonic Knights in 1212.
Amuda Castle, locally known as Hemite Kalesi, lies on an 80-meter-high limestone hill above the village of Gökçedam on the north bank of the Ceyhan river in the province of Osmaniye in Turkey. Amuda Castle guarded the river, and it commanded the strategic north-south road from the Amanus pass to Kadirli and Sis.
9 Gökçedam (formerly Hemite) (24 km northwest). The village where Yaşar Kemal was born, this is Hemite of his novels, although there is little reminder of his childhood here. There are also the ruins of a hilltop castle nearby, built by the Cilician Armenians and served the Teutonic Knights for a while.
