Salah is a village in the Gazakh uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, in Garagoyunlu ravine, later in the former Karvansara (Ijevan) district, and currently in the Tavush province. The provincial centre lies 32 km to the southwest of the town of Karvansara, on the banks of the Tarsa River, at a height of 1,100 m above sea level. In the 1930s it was included in the administrative-territorial division of the former Dilijan district.

The village, where the 11th-12th-century historical monuments are located, was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 184 in 1897, 56 in 1904, 64 in 1914, and 72 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis, the local residents of the village, having been exposed to the aggression of Armenian armed groups were deported from the village in March 1919. After the establishment of Soviet power in the territory of present-day Armenia, the surviving residents of the Salahli village were able to return to their ancestral lands. The village was inhabited by 80 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 90 in 1926 and by 112 Azerbaijanis in 1931. Part of the village population migrated from the neighboring village of Goyerchin in 1950. In November 1988 the Azerbaijanis were deported by the Armenian state. At present, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “Salahli” which belongs to the Gazakh Turkic tribe.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 April 1991, it was renamed Aghavnavank. 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 Tavush province.

 Geographic coordinates latitude 40°43’ N., longitude 45°05’ E.