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

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

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

Arakel Babakhanian Arakel Grigori Babakhanian (; – 14 November 1932), commonly known by his pen name Leo (), was an Armenians, Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University. He is best known for authoring a multi-volume work o ...

(commonly known as Leo) (1860–1932), Armenian historian, publicist, writer, critic and professor * Arakel Mirzoyan (born 1989), Armenian weightlifter * Arabo (1863–1893), also known as Arakel, an Armenian fedayi (freedom fighter) in the Ottoman Empire

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