(Ermenice) Ğevond Alişan, Şirak, Venedik 1881 [Harita: Damadyan 1880]
~1100
Hartk [Armenian Յարդք “samanlı”]
Ermenice ismi.
The Lmbatavank Monastery, dating to the 7th century, is located here. It was renowned for its tufa (volcanic stone) quarries during the Soviet era.
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Aşotsk Աշոցք(municipality [belediye])
Aşotsk, Şirak, Armenia
<1990
Ğukasyan [personal name Ğukas Ğukasyan (1899-1917) “Bolshevik revolutionary”]
Armyanskaya SSSR Administrativno-Territorialnoye Deleniye, Yerevan 1971.
1902
Kızılkoç [Turkish]
H. S. Eprigyan, Pnaşxarhig Pararan [Coğrafya Sözlüğü], I: Venedik 1902, II: Venedik 1907.
1880
Kızılxaç
(Ermenice) Ğevond Alişan, Şirak, Venedik 1881 [Harita: Damadyan 1880]
At the beginning of the 20th century, settlement.
The village, established by immigrants from Muş and Eleşkirt in 1829, was long known as Ğızılğoç (Kızılkoç). In the 1940s, it was renamed Ğukasyan in honor of Bolshevik leader Ğukas Ğukasyan, and in 1990, it adopted the name of the Aşotsk stream passing through the village.
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Gyumri Գյումրի(municipality [belediye])
Axuryan, Şirak, Armenia
<1992
Kumayri
Armyanskaya SSSR Administrativno-Territorialnoye Deleniye, Yerevan 1971.
<1990
Leninakan [personal name V. İ. Lenin “Bolshevik leader”]
Armyanskaya SSSR Administrativno-Territorialnoye Deleniye, Yerevan 1971.
<1924
Alexandropol [personal name Aleksandra Fyodorovna “The wife of Tsar Nicholas I”]
Armyanskaya SSSR Administrativno-Territorialnoye Deleniye, Yerevan 1971.
<1837
Gümri
The city referred to as Kumayri in Urartian inscriptions was used as Gümri during the Georgian, Turkish, and Iranian dominions. In 1837, it was named Aleksandropol in honor of Tsar Nicholas I's wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna, and in 1924, immediately after Lenin's death, Leninakan was adopted. In 1990-92, the ancient name Kumayri was revived, but due to public demand, the name Gümri, commonly used among the populace, was adopted. The majority of the population is of Armenian origin from Erzurum, Kars, and Muş.
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Maralik Մարալիկ(municipality [belediye])
Maralik, Şirak, Armenia
1880,
<1935
Molla Gökçe [Turkish]
(Ermenice) Ğevond Alişan, Şirak, Venedik 1881 [Harita: Damadyan 1880]
Armyanskaya SSSR Administrativno-Territorialnoye Deleniye, Yerevan 1971.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Armenian settlement.