Official Name: | Qımır |
Pushpin Map: | Azerbaijan#Shaki-Zagatala |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Azerbaijan |
Subdivision Type1: | Rayon |
Subdivision Name1: | Zaqatala |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Çobankol |
Timezone: | AZT |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +5 |
Coordinates: | 41.5292°N 46.675°W |
Qımır (also, Kymyr) is a village in the Zaqatala Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Çobankol.[1]
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.