Sichanli is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Talin district, and currently in the Aragatsotn province. The provincial centre lies 51 km to the northwest of the town of Ashtarak, 25 km to the east of the town of Talin, to the southwest of Alagoz Mountain, at a height of 2,050 m above sea level. It is marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The village was originally inhabited by Azerbaijanis. But following the settlement of Armenians there according to the Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) and the Treaty of Adrianople (1829), its Azerbaijani population gradually left the village.

The toponym was coined by adding the suffix “-lı” to the Turkic ethnonym “Sinjan” (Sichan) of the Oghuz Turkic Beydilli tribe.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 3 January 1935, it was renamed “Avtona” and by decision of the Armenian parliament dated 4 July 2006, it was renamed “Metsazor”. 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°23’ N., longitude 44°03’ E.