title: Alvar, Armenia
text: # Alvar, Armenia
  
  Alvar (Armenian: Ալվար) is a village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.
  
  ## History
  
  Some of the ancestors of the village population emigrated from Western Armenia in 1828-1830. The village was mostly populated by Azerbaijanis. In 1988-1989, during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, local Azeris moved to Azerbaijan, and Armenian families resettled in the village.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported the community's population was 168 in 2010, up from 147 at the 2001 census. As of January 2013, the villages' population is 243.
  
  The population of the village since 1886 is as follows:
  
  | Year | Population |
  | - | - |
  | 1886 | 348 |
  | 1931 | 468 |
  | 1959 | 366 |
  | 1970 | 528 |
  | 1979 | 630 |
  | 1989 | 154 |
  | 2001 | 147 |
  | 2004 | 157 |
  | 2010 | 168 |
  | 2013 | 243 |
  