Köklüce (; ; ) is a village in the Gerger District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. The village is populated by Kurds of the Dêrsimî tribe and had a population of 96 in 2021. The village also has an Armenian population.
History ʿUrbish (today called Köklüce) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. The Monastery of Mar Abhai, also known as the Monastery of the Ladders, near Urbish was founded sometime after the fifth century. One priest and two deacons were consecrated for the Church of Morī Gewargīs at ʿUrbish in Tišrīn (October) 1584 AD (AG 1895).
The monk-priest Mīkā b. Barṣaum of Urbish copied Bar Hebraeus' Mnārat Qudshē (; ) in Tammūz 1579/1580 (AG 1890) at the Monastery of Mar Abhai. He became metropolitan of Karkar with the name Gregorius in 1590/1591. In 1598 (AG 1909), Gregorius Michael son of Barṣawmō of ‘Urbish transcribed a copy of the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian. He restored a copy of the Ktābā d-zalgē (; ) by Bar Hebraeus at the Dayrā d-Mār Zakkai in Tammūz 1603 (AG 1914) for the priest Pawlōs b. Shemʿōn b. Farīd of Wank. He died in 1618. Michael's uncle the monk-priest Pilate Mukhtār 'Urbishi of Karkar (1584) was also a calligrapher.
The village was populated by Syriac Orthodox Christians until the first decades of the 20th century.
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