Gymyr
41°31′45″N 46°40′30″E / 41.52917°N 46.67500°E
Qımır | |
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  Qımır  Qımır | |
| Coordinates: 41°31′45″N 46°40′30″E / 41.52917°N 46.67500°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Rayon | Zaqatala |
| Municipality | Çobankol |
| Time zone | UTC+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.
Origins
Qımır is one of the villages in the Caucasus where the Cimmerians (Gmry) are believed to have settled during the I millennium BC. 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. 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.
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