41°31′45″N 46°40′30″E / 41.52917°N 46.67500°E / 41.52917; 46.67500

Qımır
Qımır is located in Azerbaijan
Qımır
Qımır
Coordinates: 41°31′45″N 46°40′30″E / 41.52917°N 46.67500°E / 41.52917; 46.67500
Country Azerbaijan
RayonZaqatala
MunicipalityÇobankol
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
  Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

Qımır (also, Kymyr) is a village in the Zaqatala Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Çobankol.[1]

Origins

Qımır is one of the villages in the Caucasus where the Cimmerians (Gmry) are believed to have settled during the I millennium BC.[2] Cimmerians were nomads who were successful in attacking Urartu and conquering Lydia in Anatolia. According to Herodotus, Cimmerians (Qımıroi) have fled through Caucasus to Anatolia.[3] Possible that a small group of nomadic Cimmerians, has settled in the Caucasus and the Village name of Qımır is an ethnotoponym.

References

  1. "Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008.
  2. Kristensen, Anne Katrine (1988). Who were the Cimmerians, and where did they come from?: Sargon II, and the Cimmerians, and Rusa I. Copenhagen Denmark: Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters.
  3. Herodotus. Histories, Book 4, sections 11–12.


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