Alvar (Armenian: Ալվար) is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.

Some of the ancestors of the village population emigrated from Western Armenia in 1828-1830.

In 1988-1989, during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, local Azeris moved to Azerbaijan, and Armenian families resettled in the village.

[1] The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported the community's population was 168 in 2010,[2] up from 147 at the 2001 census.

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