Manguz or Mangus was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Ellar (Kotayk, Abovyan) district, and present-day Kotayk province. It was located 12 km to the southeast of the settlement of Ellar (Abovyan). The village was noted in “The Iravan Province Review Book” and marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. The name of the village was noted as “Mangus” and “Mangyok” as well. The original inhabitants of the village were Azerbaijanis.

The village was inhabited by 60 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 316 in 1873, 383 in 1886, 450 in 1897, 420 in 1904, 639 in 1914, 621 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 managed to return to their homes. The village was inhabited by 145 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 55 in 1926, 77 in 1931. The village was abolished after the Azerbaijani population of the village had forcibly been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers on “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR in the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947.

The toponym was coined by adding the topoformant suffix “–z” to the word “mangu” used in Old Turkic in the meaning of “a solid monument, a tablet, an eternal monument” .