Naziravan is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Ashtarak district, and currently in the Aragatsotn province. The provincial centre lies 7 km to the northwest of the town of Ashtarak, at the south-western foot of Alagoz Mountain, at a height of 1,200 m above sea level. It was indicated in “The Iravan Province Review Book” as “Nazarojag”winter pasture”, and marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus as “Nazravan”.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 194 in 1831, 331 in 1873, 448 in 1886, 467 in 1897, 553 in 1908, 613 in 1914, 573 in 1916, 553 in 1918, and 322 Azerbaijanis in 1919. In 1919 the Azerbaijani population of the village, having been exposed to aggression by Armenian armed groups, was deported from the village. After the establishment of Soviet power in the present-day Armenian territory, the surviving villagers were able to return to their ancestral lands. The village was inhabited by 94 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 114 in 1926, and 152 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The Armenians from Türkiye were settled in the village in 1923–1925. According to the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz lowland of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947, the Azerbaijani population of the village was forcibly deported to Azerbaijan. At present, only Armenians live there.

The toponym was coined by adding the oeconym “van/avan” formed from the word “ebani” used in the meaning of “a place, country” in the Urartian language to the personal name “Nazar”.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 April 1991, the village was renamed “Kazaravan”. 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.

Geographic coordinates: latitude 40°20’N, longitude 44°20’ E.