Kâhta
Kâhta ( ku, Kolîk, Ottoman Turkish: کولک / ''Kölük'') is a city in Adıyaman Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Kâhta District.Taurus Mountains and draining into the Atatürk Reservoir.
Its ancient name was the Nymphaios (Νυμφαίος) or Nymphaeus river.Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAlister, ''The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites'', 1976 at the Perseus Project /ref>
For most of its course, the Kâhta has a braided channel. The ancient city of Arsameia lay on its middle course, before the
Cendere Çayı The Cendere Çayı, formerly the Bölam Su, is a right tributary of Kâhta Çayı in Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
A major Roman bridge
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feeds it on the right. Before the Atatürk Dam was built, the Kâhta was a right tributary of the
Euphrates River
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