Agarak, Syunik, a city in the southern part of the Syunik province, Armenia
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Agarakavan, a village in the central part of the Aragatsotn Province, Armenia
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Agarak, Aragatsotn, a village in the eastern part of the Aragatsotn Province, Armenia
It was a railway station on the demolished and non-functioning branch Yerevan-Nakhichevan-Horadiz.
:For the other populated place of this name in Syunik Province, see Arrajadzor (Shamsuz); for the village in Azerbaijan, see Dovşanlı.
It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (historical Artsakh, present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes), and a part of Syunik.
He held an eminent position at the Gladzor School of Illuminated Manuscripts in Syunik, established at Vayots Dzor under the patronage of the Orbelian family's historian, Stepanos Orbelian.
The Orbelians survived the arrival of Timur Lenk and his Turkmen hordes in the 1380s, but in the collapse of Timur's empire into warring factions, Smbat, the last firm Orbelian ruler of Syunik, chose the wrong side and, on the capture of his stronghold of Vorotnaberd (south of Sisian) in 1410, decamped for Georgia where he died.
Smbataberd (Armenian: Սմբատաբերդ; meaning Fortress of Smbat the Prince of Syunik) is a fortress located upon the crest of a hill between the villages of Artabuynk and Yeghegis in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia.