Arakel
Arakel or Aragel, an Armenian given name. With the addition of -ian, it is also a common surname as Arakelyan / Arakelian.
Arakel or Aragel may refer to:
- Places
- Arakel, Karabakh, or in Azerbaijani Arakül, village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan and Hadrut Province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and since 1993 Nagorno-Karabakh War, under Armenian control
- Persons
- Aragel, catholicos of Church of Caucasian Albania from 1481 to 1497. See list
- Arakel of Tabriz, or Arakel Davrizhetsi (1590s-1670), 17th-century Persian-Armenian historian
- Arakel of Siwnik (Arakel Sunetsi), author of an Armenian book of poetry on Adam and Eve titled Book of Adam (Adamgirk in Armenian) written in 1403, and first published in 1799
- Arakel Babakhanian (commonly known as Leo) (1860–1932), Armenian historian, publicist, writer, critic and professor
- Arakel Mirzoyan (born 1989), Armenian weightlifter
- Arabo (1863–1893), born Stepanos Mkhitarian, also known as Arakel, a famed Armenian fedayi (freedom fighter) in the Ottoman Empire of the late 19th century
See also
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