Göksun

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.

In the mid-10th century the town received many Armenian immigrants and by 1097, when the army of the First Crusade marched arrived at Cucusus, they encountered a large prosperous town populated by Armenians. The town, most likely with its own wall, remained under control of the Armenian princes of Cilicia but was abandoned due to Türkmen raids around 1375, with its inhabitants taking refuge in the towns of Hadjin and Zeitun. After that, the town became part of the Beylik of Dulkadir before it was conquered by the Ottomans in 1515. In April 1915, the remaining Armenian population of Cucusus was deported during the Armenian Genocide.

2009 helicopter crash 

On March 25, 2009, a chartered helicopter carrying Great Union Party's (BBP) Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, three of his party's local leaders, and a reporter crashed at Mount Keş. The pilot and all the passengers but the reporter were killed. Ismail Güneş, who initially survived, made an emergency call reporting the accident. A massive search and rescue operation, attended by thousands and assisted by helicopters and aircraft, was conducted. However, the wreckage and the five bodies were recovered only 47 hours later. The corpse of the reporter was found five days later far from the crash site.

Composition
There are 76 neighbourhoods in Göksun District:

 Acıelma
 Ahmetçik
 Alıçlıbucak
 Altınoba
 Apıklar
 Arslanbeyçiftliği
 Bahçelievler
 Berit
 Bozarmut
 Bozhüyük
 Büyükçamurlu
 Büyükkızılcık
 Çağlayan
 Çamdere
 Çardak
 Cumhuriyet
 Değirmendere
 Doğankonak
 Elmalı
 Ericek
 Esenköy
 Fındıkköy
 Fındıklıkoyak
 Gölpınar
 Göynük
 Gücüksu
 Güldağı
 Güller
 Hacıkodal
 Hacımirza
 Hacıömer
 Harbiye
 Huğtaş
 Kaleboynu
 Kaleköy
 Kamışcık
 Kanlıkavak
 Karaahmet
 Karadut
 Karaömer
 Kavşut
 Kayabaşı
 Kazandere
 Keklikoluk
 Kemalpaşa
 Kınıkkonaz
 Kireçköy
 Kızılöz
 Kömürköy
 Köprübaşı
 Korkmaz
 Küçükçamurlu
 Kurtuluş
 Mahmutbey
 Mehmetbey
 Mevlana
 Mürselköy
 Ortatepe
 Payamburnu
 Pınarbaşı
 Saraycık
 Sırmalı
 Soğukpınar
 Tahirbey
 Taşoluk
 Temürağa
 Tepebaşı
 Tombak
 Yağmurlu
 Yantepe
 Yeni
 Yeniyapan
 Yeşilköy
 Yiricek
 Yoğunoluk
 Yunus Emre

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Populated places in Kahramanmaraş Province
Districts of Kahramanmaraş Province
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Former Armenian inhabited settlements
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey