Göksun district
Sign in to saveGöksun (, or , Koukousós; or ; ) is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,942 km2, and its population is 50,676 (2022). It is near one of the sources of the Ceyhan River (ancient Pyramos), in the ancient region of Cataonia.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Göksun
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Göksun, Provinz Kahramanmaraş.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Kahramanmaraş location Göksun.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Göksun District in Kahramanmaraş Province
- Turkey place.province
- Kahramanmaraş
- Turkey place.leader_party
- YRP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Selim Cüce
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1942
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1350
- Turkey place.population_total
- 50676
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 46600
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0344
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Göksun (, or , Koukousós; or ; ) is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,942 km2, and its population is 50,676 (2022). It is near one of the sources of the Ceyhan River (ancient Pyramos), in the ancient region of Cataonia.
== History == Cucusus has an ancient history, first included in Cataonia, then in Cappadocia, and then in the Roman province of Armenia Secunda. The Byzantine bishops, Paul the Confessor (died 350 AD), John Chrysostom (died 407 AD) and Emperor Basiliscus (died 476 AD) either died in or were exiled to this remote place. Of its bishops, Domnus took part in the Council of Chalcedon (451), Longinus was a signatory of the joint letter of the bishops of the province of Armenia Secunda to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian in 458 concerning the murder of Proterius of Alexandria, Ioannes was at the Second Council of Constantinople (553), and another Ioannes at the Trullan Council of 692. No longer a residential bishopric, Cucusus is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Göksun district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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