Guney was a winter pasture located in the territory of the Zangazur uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Gorus district, and present-day Syunik province. It was dissolved in 1930.

The toponym was coined from the word “guney” used in the sense of “a place where the sun falls” in Azerbaijani.