Arakül

Arakül Առաքել
Arakül
Coordinates: Template:Xb_type:city(106) 39°26′16″N 46°59′51″E
De facto country	Republic of Artsakh
De facto region	Hadrut
De jure country	Azerbaijan
De jure district	Khojavend
Population  (2005)
• Total	106
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Arakül (Armenian: Առաքել Arakel) is a village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan and Hadrut Province of the Republic of Artsakh. During the Nagorno-Karabakh War, the village was occupied by the Armenian Army in 1993.

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  Arakel St. Mariam Astvatsatsin
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  Gate to an almost abandoned village Arakel

Etymology

According to legend, Arakel is named so because Thaddeus, the patron saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church, stayed here whilst preaching to the Armenians.

References

• Arakül at GEOnet Names Server
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140407083233/http://www.hayinfo.ru/ru/analytics/75461.html