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Kaysun, which took the name Çakırhüyük, is a town in the Besni district of Adıyaman. The plain in which this town is located is the Keysun plain. It is 84 km away from Adıyaman and 30 km away from Besni. The people of the town are generally engaged in agriculture. Cotton and corn farming is mainly done in the Keysun plain. There is a high school, primary school, health center, agricultural credit cooperative, reading hall, Keysun irrigation union, and several cotton gin factories in our town.

There is a mound of approximately 20m. where the district center is located. The historical Keysun Castle was on this mound. The name of this castle, which played an active role in history, was formed by the change of the words BEYSUN and GEYSUN. It is not known when Keysun Castle, located in the middle of a wide plain in the south of Besni District, was built. The castle, which was the scene of frequent wars, was destroyed and rebuilt many times. The castle's mound and water sources are famous. The last construction phase of Keysun Castle dates back to the Middle Ages. However, it is not possible to see the ruins of the castle today (Source: Turgut H. Zeyrek Besni (Adiyaman) surface research-2006 Turkish Institute of Ancient Sciences Journal May 2007 Issue 24).

The name Çakırhüyük is the name Keysun, which was later changed during the republican period. But throughout history, this place has been called “Kişum”, “Kaysum”, ”Cesum”, “Kaeasun”, “Kesun”, “Keasun”. In Syriac Mihael and Mateos, it is “Keysun”, “Kaysun”, in Grigor’s Urfalı Mateos’s supplement it is “Gison” and it is explained that it means “Beautiful”. The name Keysun is often confused with Maraş-Göksun by historians. It is “Kayşum” in Syriac, “Kaysum” in Arabic, “Kaesoun” or “Kessounion” in Greek. This place is between Adıyaman and Besni.

In addition to our town having rich water resources, the fact that it also has fertile and arable lands allows us to make strong estimates that our region has a rich historical past. Today, due to the lack of a special study on the history of our town and the limited resources, we cannot clearly reveal the history of our town. However, the works proving the existence of the church on the eastern slope of our town and the existence of carved houses and rooms at the foot of the mountain on the northern slope of our town, the castle in the center of our town and the mounds in various parts of our town are important works in terms of shedding light on the historical past of our town. Many of these works have been designated as protected areas by the Ministry of Culture. In fact, sufficient research has not yet been done for these areas. The historical and cultural richness of our town and its surroundings is constantly being destroyed by treasure hunters through illegal means.