[2] A small Kurdish-populated village called Kılıttaşı now partially lies on the Turkish side of the closed border.

[3] According to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, Bagaran was founded during the third century BC by king Orontes IV of Armenia.

[4] It quickly became the religious centre of Armenia, replacing Armavir as the main spiritual site of the Orontid pagan temples.

[8] At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was an Armenian-populated village near the site of ancient Bagaran with a population of slightly over 300.

In 1920, as a result of the Armenian genocide, the territories of Republic of Armenia located west of the Akhurian River were captured by Turkey.