Azat () is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.
History 'Azat''' is the Armenian equivalent for 'free.'
Located in the village is a heavily ruined Armenian 11th century church and a pair of medieval khachkars.
The village was the birthplace of Azerbaijani ashik Ashig Alasgar (1821–1926).
Demographics In the late 19th century, the village comprised "... 15 families of native Armenians as well as 20 others that had resettled there from Khoy, 7 from Bozlukh, and 8 from Bakhshi..."
In 1911, Azat, then known as Agkilisa'' (), had a predominantly Tatar (later known as Azerbaijanis)Tsutsiev, Arthur. "18. 1886–1890: An Ethnolinguistic Map of the Caucasus". Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 48–50. ""Tatars" (or in rarer cases, "Azerbaijani Tatars") to denote Turkic-speaking Transcaucasian populations that would later be called "Azerbaijanis"" population of 180 within the Nor Bayazet uezd of the Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire.
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