Garavang was a village in the territory of the Sharur-Daralayaz uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Keshishkend (Yeghegnadzor) district, and present-day Vayots Dzor province. It was located near the settlement of Keshishkend (Yeghegnadzor) and the branch of the Takadonduran River. The village was noted in “The Iravan Province Review Book” and on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 80 in 1831, 187 in 1873, 205 in 1886, 260 in 1897, 414 in 1904, 455 in 1914 and 300 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed formations in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present- day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis who survived managed to return to their ancestral lands. The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis – 66 in 1922. The Azerbaijani inhabitants of the village were deported from the village by the Armenian leadership in 1923–1925. They settled in the villages of Gabakhli and Kotanli, and the village of Garavang was abolished). At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “gara” meaning “big, enormous” and “vang” meaning “a monument, a strong monument” in Old Turkic.