Jalaloghlu is a town in the Borchali uezd of the former Tiflis governorate, later in the former Jalaloghlu (Stepanavan) district, and currently in the Tavush province. The provincial centre lies at a distance of 26 km from the town of Karvansara (Ijevan), and at a height of 1,400 m above sea level. The area of the district was transferred to the subordination of Russia within the Tiflis governorate upon the integration of Georgia into Russia in 1801. From 1919 to November 1920, it was within Lori and following the establishment of Soviet power on 29 November 1920 in the present-day Armenian territory, it was transmitted to the subordination of Armenia within the uezd of Lori-Pambak. On 9 September 1930 the former Jalaloghlu district was formed.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the name of Amir Mohammad bey Jalaloghlu from the Gizilbash tribe. That settlement was called “the village of Jalaloghlu”, as it belonged to the Amir Mohammad bey Jalaloghlu from the Turkic tribe “Chapni”. The village was originally inhabited by Azerbaijanis, who gradually left the village after Armenians had been settled in the region. It is an anthropotoponym.

The town was renamed “Stepanavan” in honour of Stepan Shaumyan, who had organized genocide against the Azerbaijanis by the 1923 decision of the present-day Armenian Land Committee. 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 Tavush province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 41°00′ N., longitude: 44°23′ E.