Geldibuldu (Kurdish: Qertîlbe) is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Gewozî tribe and had a population of 686 in 2021. The village is an ancient site dating back to the Hellenistic and Roman era including tombs, cemeteries and a bath house.
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Tille Höyük is an archaeological site in Geldibuldu village in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey. It is a small settlement mound on the west bank of the Euphrates some 60 km east of Adıyaman.
The site was excavated by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, under the direction of David French, from 1978 to its flooding by the Atatürk Reservoir in 1990. Surface pottery suggests the site was first occupied in the fourth millennium BC, but large-scale excavation was restricted to the Medieval, Classical and Iron Age levels of the site. A small step-trench recovered Iron Age and Bronze Age pottery in 1980; a more substantial trench was cut into the side of the mound in the last season and reached Late Bronze Age levels.
The Iron Age levels at Tille have been identified on the basis of the presence of iron objects, and the parallels in pottery with Late Assyrian pottery from Mesopotamia. More precise evidence for dating the extensive Iron Age burnt level comes from comparison of its architectural features. The pebble mosaic courtyard and surrounding building plan is found close parallels in eighth century BC. Neo-Assyrian buildings at Til Barsip and Arslan Tash in Syria. The date of the extensive burnt level can be placed in the eighth-seventh centuries BC. on archaeological grounds.
Finds from the site are in the Adıyaman Museum.
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Aktaş is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Gewozî tribe and had a population of 320 in 2021.
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Beşikli is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Gewozî tribe and had a population of 240 in 2021.
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Akıncılar is a town and municipality in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The town is populated by Kurds of the Gewozî, Kawan and Mirdêsan tribes and had a population of 1,658 in 2021.
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Akalın is a village in the Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Gewozî tribe and had a population of 100 in 2021.