Dallakli is a village in the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Ellar (Kotayk, Abovyan) district, and currently in the Kotayk province. The provincial centre lies 55 km to the southeast of the town of Akhta (Hrazdan), at a height of 2,100 m above sea level.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 201 in 1873, 317 in 1886, 374 in 1897, 396 in 1904, 445 in 1914, 466 Azerbaijanis in 1916. In 1918 the Azerbaijanis were deported having been exposed to the genocide of Armenian armed units, and the Armenians removed from abroad were settled in the village. The surviving Azerbaijanis managed to return to their hearths after the establishment of Soviet power in the present-day Armenian territory. Along with the Armenians, the village was inhabited by 24 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 33 in 1926, 40 Azerbaijanis in 1931. According to the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “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 Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical- ethnic territories and forced to move to Azerbaijan in 1948–1950.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the name of one of the branches of the Marzili tribe, “Dallakli”.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 21 June 1948, the village was renamed “Zovashen”. 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 Kotayk province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°18′ N., longitude: 44°44′ E.