DAVALI - The village is located in the central part of Vedibasar district, in ­Agardagh valley, 14 km south-west of the village of Boyuk Vedi, the center of Vedi district, ­48 km from Irevan, on the Irevan-Nakhchivan-Baku railway line and the Irevan-Nakhchivan highway.

Until 1828, only Azerbaijanis lived in the village, from that year ­to 1988 it was a mixed village, where Azerbaijanis, Muslim Kurds and Armenians lived together.

In 1832 28 Azerbaijani Turks (11 men, 17 women) in only 2 households were registered in the village of Develi which was heavily damaged during the Russian-Iranian and Russian-Ottoman wars in 1826-1829.­The same source said that the remaining population of the village were Armenians (101 families out of 639 people) who migrated from the Iranian counties of Maku and Salmas in 1828-1829 and settled­ in the empty Muslim houses.

In 1873 there were 207 (113 men, 94 women) Azerbaijani Turks in 19 households in Develi village, 209 (113 men, 96 women) Muslim Kurds in 24 households, 1760 ­(917 men, 843 women) Armenians in 217 householdes.

In 1886 the total number of Azerbaijani, Kurdish and Armenian population of Develi was 2525 people (1319 men, 1206 women) in 355 households, of which 263 people (140 men, 123 women) were Azerbaijani Turks, 287 people (143 men, 144 women) were Kurds, 2075 people (1036 men, 939 women) in 291 households were Armenians.­

In 1905, 159 Azerbaijanis lived in the village of Develi, and 263 in 1914.

During the Soviet years, the policy of Armenianization of the village was continued.­ In 1922, only 3 Azerbaijanis lived in the village, as opposed to 1,533 Armenians.­ ­In 1931, the number of Azerbaijanis in the village reached 41 people.

In 1949-1950, most of the Azerbaijani population of the village was forcibly ­relocated to Azerbaijan, and those who remained in 1988 were expelled from their homes and the village was completely Armenianized. In 1988, the number of Azerbaijanis living in the village gave reached 30-40 houses.

On January 1, 1935, the village was renamed Ararat