Grampa

Grampa is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Uchkilsa (Echmiadzin, Vagharshapat) district, and currently in the Armavir province. The provincial centre lies 21 km to the northeast of the town of Serdarabad (Armavir), on the right bank of the Kasakh River, at a height of 880 m above sea level. In “The Iravan Province Comprehensive Data Book” compiled in 1590, it was marked as “Karanpa village”.

Until 1828 the village had been solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis. After the Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828–1830, the Armenians deported from Türkiye were settled in the village (386, p.p.583- 586). The village was inhabited by 90 Azerbaijanis and 25 Armenians in 1831, 120 Azerbaijanis and 273 Armenians in 1873, 112 Azerbaijanis and 337 Armenians in 1886, and 129 Azerbaijanis and 401 Armenians in 1897. In February 1918 the Azerbaijanis living in the village were exposed to aggression by Armenian armed forces and deported from their historical and ethnic lands. The surviving Azerbaijanis who left the village managed to return to their ancestral lands following the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia. In 1922 the village was inhabited by 14 Azerbaijanis. In 1923–1924 they were expelled from their ancestral lands again. Currently, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the ethnonym “karampa” from the Ulyuyoruk tribe of the Oghuz.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 25 January 1978, the village was renamed “Tsiatsan”. According to the law “On the Administrative-Territorial Division of the Republic of Manistan” 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative territory of the Armavir province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 40°11’ N., longitude: 44°16’ E.