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


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