Argaz 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 near the Keshishkend, on the bank of the Argazchay and Akhdere Rivers and at a 5-6 km distance from the village of Malishka/Malishah. The name of the village was noted in “The Iravan Province Review Book” and marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 193 in 1831, 348 in 1873, 479 in 1886, 587 in 1897, 745 in 1904, 820 in 1914 and 758 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. Later, the village was abolished. At present, it is ruined.

The toponym was coined by combining the phonetic variant “ar” of the word “er/ir” meaning “the side of the mountain that gets sunlight” in Old Turkic and the word “gaz” meaning “the lowest part of a pass”.