Gendere was a village in the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Pashali (Azizbeyov, Vayk) district, and present-day Vayots Dzor province. The village was located in the Kotanli lowland, on the bank of the Garagayaderesi River and 4 km to the northeast of the village of Kotanli. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 152 in 1873, 217 in 1886, 330 in 1897, 503 in 1904, 553 in 1914 and 354 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis who survived were able to return to their own village. The village was inhabited only by 78 Azerbaijanis in 1922. Those Azerbaijanis were forced out from the village in 1923 and the village was abolished. At present, the village is ruined.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “gen” meaning “wide, spacious” and “dere” in Azerbaijani.