Kisarkhalaj was a village in the territory of the Zangezur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Gafan district, and present-day Syunik province.

It was inhabited by 10 Azerbaijanis in 1897. The village was devastated as a result of the massacre by Armenian armed units in 1905–1906.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “gisar/khisar” meaning “a fortress on a lowland”, “a fortified town” in Turkic and the Turkic ethnonym “Khalaj”.