title: Göksun
text: 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