Yamanjali is a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Gamarli (Artashat) district, and currently in the Ararat province. The provincial centre is located 10 km to the north of the town of Artashat, next to the village of Inakli and at a height of 895 m above sea level. The name of the village was noted as “Imanjli” in “The Iravan Province Review Book”. Armenian literature indicates that the village was built in 1897 and the counting of the population started from that year respectively. however, this contradicts the reality.

In “The Iravan Province Review Book” dated 1728 the village was noted as “Yamanjli” among the villages included into the Karni and Vedi areas, and the income of the village was estimated in 5,000 akchas. In his book “The Population of Soviet Armenia in 1831- 1931” published in Armenian in Iravan in 1932 Z.Gorgodian clearly points out that the village was inhabited by Azerbaijanis in 1831, 1873 and 1886. The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 137 Azerbaijanis in 1831, 214 in 1873, 199 in 1886, 257 in 1897, 272 in 1908, 300 in 1914, 280 in 1916 and 763 Azerbaijanis in January 1918.

In February 1918 the Azerbaijanis were massacred or deported by Armenian armed units and the Armenians removed from Türkiye were settled in the village. After the establishment of Soviet power on the territory of present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis that survived managed to return to their homes. The village was inhabited by 53 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 67 in 1926 and 66 Azerbaijanis in 1931. According to the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the Resettlement of Collective Farmers and Other Azerbaijani Population from Armenian SSR to Kur-Araz Lowlands of Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947, the Azerbaijanis were relocated in Azerbaijan between 1948 and 1953. At present, the village is inhabited only by Armenians.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the Turkic tribal name “Yamanjali”. It is an ethnotoponym.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 25 May 1967, the village was renamed “Deghchut”. It was integrated into the administrative territory of the Ararat province according to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995.

Geographic coordinates: latitude 40001’N., longitude 44032’E.