According to Hovhannes Shahkhatunyants, an Armenian historian, Kond is located at the western and southern hillsides and foot of a rocky hill with similar name.

[1] Kond, meaning "long hill" in Armenian, so named because of its higher elevation in relation to the surrounding areas.

Kond, similar to Shahar, was also populated by indigenous Armenians, and during Persian rule they became the majority ethnic group living in the quarter.

The population of Kond soon became multiethnic, when approximately one hundred Armenian Boshas (Roma) moved to the hill.

[7] Many of Kond's narrow winding streets and alleyways are only three to four feet wide with irrigation ditches to either side.

Since the recent passage of Decision 1151-N, on "Construction programs within the borders of Yerevan's Kentron District" by the Armenian Government on August 1, 2002, there has been a renewed air of uncertainty to whether the local government intends to appropriate Kond and remove existing older structures and its residents (Kondetsis).