Adıyaman

Adıyaman is a Kurdish-majority city in southeastern Turkey, and the capital of the Adıyaman Province.

The city officially had the Ottoman Turkish name Hısn-ı Mansur until the year 1926, named after the fortified castle perched on a hill around which the city grew. As the official name was difficult for the locals to pronounce, people were referring the city as adı yaman since early 19th century, which means "its name is tough" or " whose name is tough" in Turkish. Another likely origin of the modern Turkish name is the bad reputation that the province enjoyed due to difficult terrain and widespread banditry, hence "adı yaman", which can also translate as " which has a bad name ". In 1926, this term was adopted as the official name of the city. Although the word yaman had very negative connotations in Ottoman Turkish, it has earned a strong positive connotation in modern Turkish, just like the English word "terrific".

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