Garagoyunlu was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and present-day Ararat province. The name of the village was noted in “The Iravan Province Review Book”.

The village was inhabited by 236 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 355 in 1873, 474 in 1886, 456 in 1897, 432 in 1908, 475 in 1914 and 509 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. The Armenians removed from abroad were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their homes. Along with the Armenians, the village was inhabited by178 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 228 in 1926 and 246 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village was abolished after the Azerbaijani population of the village had been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the Turkic ethnonym “Garagoyunlu”.