Evjilar is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gurdugulu (Hoktemberyan) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre lies 15 km to the southeast of the town of Serdarabad (Hoktemberyan, Armavir), and at a height of 845 m above sea level. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was initially inhabited by Azerbaijanis who left it after the Armenians had been settled in the region. The Armenians there had been deported from the Iranian provinces of Khoy and Salmas.

The toponym was created by adding the plural suffix “-lar” to the ethnonym “avcı” (evci – author) of the Turkic Dulgadirli tribe to denote “a village belonging to the Evjilar Tribe”. “Evci” is the phonetic variant of the ethnonym “avçı”. It is an ethnotoponym.

The village was renamed “Arazap” by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 10 April 1947. 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 Armavir province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 40°02′ N., longitude: 44°08′ E.