Qımır : Origins Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Qımır

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

Place in Zaqatala, Azerbaijan

Qımır

Show map of Azerbaijan

Qımır

Show map of Shaki-Zagatala Economic Region

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

AzerbaijanRayonZaqatalaMunicipalityÇobankolTime 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

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