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Alashkert () is a village in the
Armavir Province Armavir (, ), is a administrative divisions of Armenia, province (''marz'') in the western part of Armenia. Located in the Ararat plain dominated by Mount Ararat from the south and Mount Aragats from the north, the province's capital is the tow ...
of
Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...
.


Toponymy

Prior to 1935 the village was known as ''Kyarimarkh''. The village was then known as ''Sovetakan'' between 1935 and 2008. In 2008, the village was renamed ''Alashkert'', after the historic Western Armenian town of Alashkert, from which many of its inhabitants had escaped in 1918.


History

The village was populated by Iranian Azerbaijanis who were forcibly settled in Alashkert as part of raising Muslim dominance in the region. Armenian migrants settled in the region in 1918 after having escaped from Western Armenia.


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* * Populated places in Armavir Province {{ArmavirAM-geo-stub