Kolagiran

Kolagiran is a village in the Novo-Bayazid uezd of the former Iravan governorate, in the former Ashagi Garanlig (Martuni) district, and currently in the Gegharkunik province. The provincial centre lies 50 km to the southeast of the town of Kavar (Yeni Bayazid, Kamo), on the shores of Lake Goycha, at a height of 1,950 m above sea level. In their works Armenian authors mentioned the village as “Kolagran”, “Ashagi Kolagiran”, “Kolani girilan”; it was marked as “Kyolani gran” on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

 Armenians were settled in the village from Türkiye in 1828–1830. In 1897, along with the Armenians, the village was inhabited by 88 Azerbaijanis. As a result of massacres committed by Armenian armed groups in 1905–1906, the Azerbaijanis were expelled from the village. At present, the village is inhabited by Armenians.

The toponym was coined from the Turkic ethnonym “Kolagiran”.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 January 1935, the village was renamed “Tsovinar”. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative territory of the Gegharkunik province.

Geographical coordinates: latitude: 40°09’ N., longitude: 45°27’ E.