During the Hellenicthsand Roman
periods in the area between the
eastern and the Commagene Kingdom .
Although the kingdom was small it controlled
thepasses of the Taurus range of mountains
and possessed the fertile cultivated
area irrigated by the Euphretes.
The Commagene kingdom which
was descbribed as tart of Northem
Syria in antique geooraphy was bordered
by the Euphrates to the East Cilicia to the
West and Capadocia to the North .
These lands most of wihch are in the
Adıyaman province today are surrounded
by Kahramanmaraş,Malatya,Gaziantep,
Diyarbakır and Urfa.This territory which is
also called upper Mesopotmia has been inhabited by man since the Paleolitch age.
