Isahakyan

Coordinates: 40°37′00″N 43°43′31″E / 40.61667°N 43.72528°E / 40.61667; 43.72528

Isahakyan
Իսահակյան
Isahakyan
Coordinates: 40°37′00″N 43°43′31″E / 40.61667°N 43.72528°E / 40.61667; 43.72528
Country Armenia
Marz (Province) Shirak
Population (2011)
  Total 824
Time zone UTC+4 ( )

Isahakyan (Armenian: Իսահակյան), known as Kharum until the 1820s, and later as Ghazarabad until 1945, is a village in the Shirak Province of Armenia. It was formerly named after Ghazar Agha who organized the defense of the town against the Persians in 1826-1828; later named after poet Avetik Isahakyan, who lived there.[1]

Population

Population per years is the following.[2]

Year 1831 1897 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 2001 2004
Pop. 325 596 451 596 588 502 532 960 1065

References

  1. Kiesling, Rediscovering Armenia, p. 79, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website Archived 2008-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "Dictionary of Armenian residences (Հայաստանի հանրապետության բնակավայրերի բառարան), page 84" (PDF). Retrieved April 18, 2014.


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