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The village of Rind was founded in the 13th century. It is believed to be the village of Rreghi mentioned in the 13th-century work “History of the Province of Sisakan” by historian Stepanos Orbelian. Starting from the 14th century, the village’s population gradually declined due to Mongol invasions, natural disasters, epidemics, and raiding bandits. The village was completely depopulated in the first decade of the 17th century, when Safavid Shah Abbas I forcibly deported about 300,000 Armenians from Eastern Armenia to Persia. Following the departure of the native Armenians, the site had no permanent population until its resettlement in the 19th century.
Rind was resettled after the Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828. The first settler of Old Rind was Simon from Shorghet, followed by Melik-Safar’s sons—Melik Bali, Aghabab, and Grigor—and then Zargar Tadevos and other families. Some of the inhabitants’ ancestors migrated from the villages of Khoy and Salmast in 1828. According to ethnographer Yervand Lalayan, Stepan, the forefather of the Melik-Safar lineage, lived and rose to prominence in Ani, the Bagratid capital, where he received the title of Melik (Sardar) and a military command. Melik-Safar’s brother, Melik-Tangi, settled in the village of Brnakot in Sisian, founding the Melik-Tangyan dynasty.
Old Rind
In the mid-19th century, Sargis Tarumyan, a contractor from Shushi, attempted to seize the villages of Rind, Apana (4 km NE of Aghavnadzor), and Ertij through deception, depriving Rind of irrigation water coming from Ulguyr. In 1849, the residents of Rind petitioned the district governor, stating that the water belonged solely to them and that Tarumyan had no jurisdiction in the matter.
The Jndrakhach plateau, located 1 km northwest of the current village site, is known in modern history as a battlefield of numerous Armenian-Turkish clashes. A significant battle took place on November 29, 1919, where the platoons and militia of Aghavnadzor and Rind defeated and expelled Turkish raiders from Sharur—led by Khalin Bey and advancing through Chiva—from the positions of Jndrakhach.
In 1967, due to landslides, the old village site (Old Rind) was depopulated, and the residents moved 3 km west to found the current village in the “Tap” area.