Introducing Osmaniye Province 3

Akkadian king Sargon (ca. 2340 to 2284) and the Taurus Mountains, the historical content Amanus inscriptions, mentions comes from the borders of southeastern Anatolia.

Another Akkadian king, after Sargon'dan Naramsin (BC 2260 to 2223), the inscriptions up to the limits of military expeditions Anatolia describes doing. Bogazkoy Naramsin tablets "Cedar (Amanus) ıskuppu king" is called.

BC 3 thousand years of Mesopotamian sources, "Amanum" tablets of the Hittite Empire period, "Amana", BC 4 to 7 century. In the Assyrian inscriptions "Hamanu", Classical era sources "Maurun Oros", which belongs to the Crusaders, the western sources, "Montana MIGRA", the sources of the Islamic era, "Cebel'ül Lukka saved as" zone; people said Gavur mountains, with geographers naming Amanos'lardır .

Gökçedam village, 500 m south of the castle cliffs Hemite Babaoğlan processed, and the fortress of the king relief of 300 m. the hill away from the face of a rearing horse on the person and his depictions of people vaziyetteki prays, is similar to the Hittite king reliefs. The kings of the Hittite written sources and the people of this region is referred to often.

King, Late Hittite city Asativata (8th century BC.) Karatepe kurmuştur.M.Ö a border fortress. V. and the fourth century. The Persians who ruled Anatolia, Çukurova, in the east of the egemendiler.M.Ö. IV. century. end, and BC I century AD. the dominant force in the region of the mid-Seleukoslardır.M.Ö. 333 Great Emperor Alexander IV. Dariusu Dortyol eaten plain. Rock tombs, necropolis areas, some of the fundamentals of the castles of stone and masonry and architectural items from the ruins of the Hellenistic period, indicating that the settlement in these areas.