Guldarvish

Guldarvish is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Talin district, and currently in the Aragatsotn province. The provincial centre lies 57 km to the northwest of the town of Ashtarak, at the southeastern foot of Alagoz Mountain, at a height of 2,050 m above sea level.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 190 in 1873, 243 in 1886, 261 in 1897, 327 in 1904, 346 in 1914 and 368 Azerbaijanis in 1916. In January-February 1918 the village was exposed to aggression by Armenian armed groups, the Azerbaijanis were deported from their historical and ethnic lands, and the Armenians relocated from Türkiye were settled there. Currently, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “darvish” and the ethnonym “Gul” of the Kipchak tribe. It is an ethnotoponym.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 January 1935, the name of the village was changed to “Vosketas”. 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 Aragatsotn province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 40°27’ N., longitude: 43°57’ E.