In antiquity, the territory of the modern Shamkir was part of the province of
Utik, a part of the
Kingdom of Armenia until 387 AD. Greco-Roman historians from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD state that Utik was a province of Armenia, with the
Kura River separating Armenia and
Caucasian Albania. The historical
Shamkur (also known as
Shamkhor and
Shamkir In 737, Khazars settled in Shamkir after the Arabian commander Mervan's campaign to the
Volga. Following
World War I, Annenfeld was given the Russian name of
Annino (). In 1938, it was granted
urban-type settlement and renamed
Shamkhor (), after the nearby railway station and the historical Shamkir. In 1944, two years after the German population was deported as part of the
population transfer in the Soviet Union, it was granted town status. In 1991, the name was changed to Shamkir. ==Economy==