Qımır

Qımır

Qımır

Place in Zaqatala, Azerbaijan

41°31′45″N 46°40′30″E

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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. [1]
    "Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008.
  2. [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. [3]
    Herodotus. Histories, Book 4, sections 11–12.


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