Arakül

Arakül Առաքել
Arakül
Coordinates: 39°26′16″N 46°59′51″E / 39.43778°N 46.99750°E / 39.43778; 46.99750
Country	De facto Nagorno-Karabakh De jure Azerbaijan
Province Rayon	Hadrut Khojavend
Population (2005)
• Total	106
Time zone	AZT (UTC+4)
• Summer (DST)	AZT (UTC+5)

Coordinates: 39°26′16″N 46°59′51″E / 39.43778°N 46.99750°E / 39.43778; 46.99750

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

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

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