Garapapag

Garapapag 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. Another name for the village was Seyidkend.

The village was inhabited by 130 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 345 in 1873, 346 in 1886, 483 in 1897, 410 in 1904, 705 in 1914 and 382 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their lands. The village was inhabited by 99 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 131 in 1926 and 118 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village was abolished, after the Azerbaijani population of the village had forcibly 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. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “Garapapaglar” of the Gazakhlar tribe.