Mount Boyuk Kirs

Mountain in Azerbaijan

Boyuk Kirs

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Boyuk Kirs

Boyuk Kirs (Azerbaijan)

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Country

Azerbaijan

Mount Boyuk Kirs (Azerbaijani: Böyük Kirs dağı — Mount Big Kirs) is one of the highest peaks in the Karabakh Range of the Lesser Caucasus in Azerbaijan at an altitude of 2,725 metres above sea level.^[1] Before the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, it was the highest mountain of the breakaway Republic of Arstakh.^[2]^[3] It forms the border between the Khojavend and Shusha districts of Azerbaijan. The mountain is formed by volcanic rocks dating to the Middle Jurassic.^[4]

Toponymy

The mount is named so as to distinguish it from the oronym Kichik Kirs. Kirs is used as a toponymic term meaning "swollen hill, steep mountain".^[1]

Geology

The mount is part of the geological Lachyn subzone, which is a narrow Jurassic rock with some Albian-Cenomanian transgressive mantle, over 70 km long, and 2-8 km wide. The subzone is traced from the interfluve of the Pichanis and the Shalva in the northeast, to the left bank of the Araz in the southeast.^[5]

Gallery

Mount Boyuk Kirs as seen from the Shusha District during winter.
Mount Boyuk Kirs as seen from the city of Shusha
Mount Boyuk Kirs as seen from a road

References

^ ^a ^b Əliyeva, Rübabə, ed. (2007). AZƏRBAYCAN TOPONİMLƏRİNİN ENSİKLOPEDİK LÜĞƏTİ (PDF) (in Azerbaijani). Vol. 1. Baku: Şərq-Qərb. p. 152. ISBN 978-9952-34-155-3.
^ "World atlas". 26 October 2017. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021.
^ "Wikiloc". Archived from the original on 23 October 2021.
^ "BÖYÜK KİRS". Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası.
^ Geosciences of Azerbaijan. Vol. 1. Springer. 2016. p. 180. ISBN 978-3-319-27393-8.