Stepanavanball

Stepanavanball is a cityball is Armenia's Lori Marz. He was first called Jalaloghli, which means son of Jalal in Turkish. A family named Hasan-Jalalay gave him the name. He changed his name to Stepanavanball in 1930 in honor of a bolshevik leader Stepan Shaumian.

History
Stepanavanball was first a fortress used by the Urartians. During the Ancient Armeniaball's time, he was a part of the Tashir canton of the Gugark province. He eventually was a part of the Sassanid empire. During Bagratid Armeniaball's time, he let Loriball become the Kingdom of Loriball and Stepanavanball was a part of him, but the Georgians took him. Then the Seljuk Turks came but only stayed for 4 years, the Kingdom of Lori was taken again by the Georgians, then the Mongols came and destroyed everything. Safavid dynastyball came and took Stepanavanball, the kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti rebelled and became independent. Russian Empireball came and annexed them. in 1918 Stepamavanball and the rest of Loriball was a part of the new republic of Armenia, but 2 years later Soviet Unionball took Armenia. In 1988 an earthquake hit Armenia causing som minor damge to Stepanavanball, but it mostly affected Spitakball. Eventually in 1991 Armeniaball became independent and Stepanavanball was with him.