Beykend is a village in the Alexandropol uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Artik district, and currently in the Shirak province. Armenian authors mention the village as “Bekyand”, “Kichik Bekyand” in their works. The provincial centre lies 23 km to the southeast of the town of Gumru, to the northwest of Alagoz Mountain, and at a height of 1,720 m above sea level. It was mentioned as “Beykend” in “The Iravan Province Review Book”, and as “Kichik Bekand” on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was initially inhabited by Azerbaijanis, who gradually left there following the removal of the Armenians from Türkiye and their settlement in the territory of the Iravan Khanate according to the Treaty of Adrianople (1829).

The toponym was coined by combining the word “bey (bak)” used in the meaning of “a hill, upperland” in Old Turkic and the word “kend”, denotes “a village located on the hills, mountainous place”. It is an orotoponym.

It was renamed “Pokr Parni” in 1920 and further changed by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 7 May 1969 again and became “Anushavan”. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative area of the Shirak province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°38′ N., longitude: 43°58′ E.