Isahakyan

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

Isahakyan
Իսահակյան
Isahakyan
Coordinates: 40°37′00″N 43°43′31″E / 40.61667°N 43.72528°E
Country Armenia
Marz (Province) Shirak
Population (2001)
  Total 960
Time zone   (UTC+4)
  Summer (DST)   (UTC+5)

Isahakyan (Armenian: Իսահակյան, also Romanized as Isaakyan and Isahakian; prior to the 1820s, Kharum; until 1945, Ghazarabad, Khazarapat and Kazarapat) is a town in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was named for Ghazar Aga who organized the defense of the town against the Persians in 1826-1828; later named avter poet Avetik Isahakyan, who lived there.[1]

References

  1. Kiesling, Rediscoving Armenia, p. 79, available online at the US embassy to Armenia's website