Gabakhli 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. It was located 7-8 km to the southwest of the settlement of Pashali, at the foot of Daralayaz Mountain and on the bank of the Gabakhli River, one of the tributaries of the Arpachay. The name of the village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 33 in 1831, 201 in 1873, 270 in 1886, 273 in 1897, 235 in 1904, 258 in 1914 and 364 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. Only after the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their village. The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 103 in 1922, 90 in 1926 and 108 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village was abolished, after the Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village had forcibly been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers on “The Replacement of Collective Farmers and Other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz Lowlands of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by adding the identifying suffix “-li” to the Turkic ethnonym “Gabag” meaning “the village where the Gabag tribe lives”.