Qımıl
Qımıl (also, Gimil’, Qımılqazma, Qımıl-qazma, and Kymyl) is a village and municipality in the Quba Rayon of Azerbaijan. The Quba (Guba) District (khanate) has a regional population of 140,000. Quba, often referred to as Guba-Khachmaz, is located in the northeast of Azerbaijan, to the north of Baku.
Qimil is a mountain village set in a recreational area that runs parallel to the Gacres area, which is the most popular recreational area in the khanate. The Qimil municipality comprises the villages of Qımıl, Gazma, and Küsnətqazma. Approximately 3,879 people reside within 7 kilometers of Qimil.
Since the first half of the 18th century, Quba has served as the regional administrative center for Qimil and surrounding villages. At that time, Khan Gusein Ali made Quba the capital of his widespread khanate and relocated his residence there. Later, Fatali Khan, his successor and most renowned ruler of Quba khanate, united disparate Azerbaijani areas under his reign, conquering all of northwest Azerbaijan from Derbent to Lankaran.
In 1813, Qimil, along with the rest of the Quba khanate, was incorporated into the Russian Empire.
Qimil is a mountain village set in a recreational area that runs parallel to the Gacres area, which is the most popular recreational area in the khanate. The Qimil municipality comprises the villages of Qımıl, Gazma, and Küsnətqazma. Approximately 3,879 people reside within 7 kilometers of Qimil.
Since the first half of the 18th century, Quba has served as the regional administrative center for Qimil and surrounding villages. At that time, Khan Gusein Ali made Quba the capital of his widespread khanate and relocated his residence there. Later, Fatali Khan, his successor and most renowned ruler of Quba khanate, united disparate Azerbaijani areas under his reign, conquering all of northwest Azerbaijan from Derbent to Lankaran.
In 1813, Qimil, along with the rest of the Quba khanate, was incorporated into the Russian Empire.
Map - Qımıl
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Country - Azerbaijan
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The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh. The region and seven surrounding districts are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan pending a solution to the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh through negotiations facilitated by the OSCE, although became de facto independent with the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. Following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, the seven districts and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh were returned to Azerbaijani control.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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AZN | Azerbaijani manat | ₼ | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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HY | Armenian language |
AZ | Azerbaijani language |
RU | Russian language |