Yukhari Pirtikan 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 is located 61 km to the northwest of the town of Ashtarak and at a height of 1,990 m above sea level. It was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

The Armenians removed from the Mush and Eleshkirt provinces of Türkiye in 1831 were settled in the village of Yukhari Pirtikan.

The toponym was coined by combining the words “yukhari” which denotes a distinctive feature in Azerbaijani toponymy, “pir” in the meaning of “a temple” and the ethnonym “Tikan” of the Kipchak Turks.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR dated 2 March 1940, the village was renamed “Tsakhkasar”. 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°27’ N., longitude 43°53’E.