Arakel or Aragel, an Armenian

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. It means "To send" in Armenian. With the addition of -ian, it is also a common surname as Arakelyan / Arakelian. Arakel or Aragel may refer to:

Places

* Arakel, Karabakh, a village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan and Hadrut Province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Persons

*Aragel, catholicos of Caucasian Albanian diocese of the Armenian church from 1481 to 1497 *

Arakel of Tabriz Arakel Davrizhetsi or Arakel of Tabriz (; 1590s–1670) was a 17th-century Armenian historian and clergyman from Tabriz. His ''History'' is an important and reliable source for the histories of the Safavid and Ottoman empires, Armenia, Azerba ...

or Arakel Davrizhetsi (1590s-1670), 17th-century Persian-Armenian historian *

Arakel Babakhanian Arakel Grigori Babakhanian ( hy, Առաքել Գրիգորի Բաբախանյան; – 14 November 1932), commonly known by his pen name Leo ( hy, Լեո), was an Armenian historian, writer, critic and professor of Yerevan State University. ...

(commonly known as Leo) (1860–1932), Armenian historian, publicist, writer, critic and professor * Arakel Mirzoyan (born 1989), Armenian weightlifter *

Arabo Arabo ( hy, Արաբօ, 1863–1893), born Arakel Mkhitarian, was an Armenian fedayi of the late 19th century. Arabo was born in the village of Kurter or Korter ( or ) in the region of Sasun in the Bitlis vilayet. Arabo studied at the Arakel ...

(1863–1893), also known as Arakel, an Armenian fedayi (freedom fighter) in the Ottoman Empire

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