Western Azerbaijan Heritage

In Kirs village, Gafan district, Zangazur ma­hal. 

Kirs village has been named Kisk since 04.07.2006.

Archa­eological monu­ment

During the archaeological excavation conducted by the Armenians, a part of the mo­numents found in the ancient ce­metery area was brought to Ira­van and presented as an Armenian mo­nument in the mu­seums and parks there. So­me monuments remained in the old cemetery un­til the 1988 de­portation.

Albanian-Turkish tribes lived in Kirs village in ancient times. There were many buildings with ruins and remains in the village. Most of these buildings were destroyed and burned by the Armenian terrorist groups that attacked the village in 1905-1906 and 1918. The cemetery in Ked, which bears traces of Albanian-Oghuz history, and the tombstones there were also victims of Armenian vandalism. 3 stone rams and many ornaments found during excavations in the cemetery be­longing to the ancient period in the village show the antiquity of the village496. One of the possibilities is that the name of Kirs village is related to the word "kirs" which creates “snow avalanche”. The village is located at the foot of Kirsdagh. As in 1905-1906, the villagers were again attac­ked by Armenians in 1918. This time, the people of Kirs who were forced to leave the village took refuge in Ordubad. After the establishment of the Soviet govern­ment in Armenia in 1922, approximately half of Kirslians returned and rebuilt their native villages. The Kurud collective farm, which included Chirish, which was created in 1933 together with the neigh­boring village of Kurud, was abolished in 1965 and forcibly merged into the Gighi livestock farm. 130 Azerbaijanis lived in the village in 1886, 56 in 1897, 78 in 1922, 77 in 1926, and 104 in 1931. In November 1988, like other Azerbaijani residents of the region, Kirslians were expelled from their historical-ethnic lands by the Armenian state498. According to the information of the National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia in 2001, there is no inhabitant in the village of Kirs, which is part of the Gighi village community, the village has been aban­doned. National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia: Report on the re­sults of the 2001 census of Armenia.

The toponym is derived from the word kir (-kir), which means "steppe", "bor­der", "plateau", "mountain" in Tur­kish. "s" at the end of a to­ponym is a to­poformant. The relief on which the village is lo­ca­ted corres­ponds to the na­me of the villa­ge. Thus, the vil­lage is loca­ted at the foot of the mountain, in a meadow. It is a toponym with a simple struc­ture based on relief.