Germī

Germī lies in the hills adjoining the Mughan country of northwestern Iran. The plain to the north bears traces of a great network of settlements and irrigation channels from Sasanian times. In later centuries Mughan and Ardabil became associated with the Shahsevan, Turkic pastoral groups whose herds moved between lowland winter pastures and the high country. Their seasonal camps formed a landscape very different from the older irrigated settlements, yet both depended on the varied terrain between the Aras and the mountains.