Seyid Kotanli was a village in the territory of the Iravan uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and present-day Ararat province. It was located 30 km to the northeast of the settlement of Gamarli (Artashat). The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. It was within the administrative territory of the former Vedi (Ararat) district in the 1930s.

The village was inhabited by 156 Azerbaijanis in 1873, 201 in 1886, 279 in 1897, 128 in 1904, 377 in 1914 and 356 Azerbaijanis in 1916. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or expelled from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis who survived managed to return to their village. The village was inhabited by 63 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 67 in 1926, 106 in 1931 and 221 Azerbaijanis in 1939. In accordance with 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 deported to Azerbaijan and the village was abolished. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined by combining the ethnonym “Seyid” of the Arabian Guraish tribe and the Turkic ethnonym “Kotanli”.