Karapet
Karapet or Garabet or Garabed is a common Armenian given name. Variants would include Karbis, Karo or Garbis, Garo.
Karapet / Garabet / Garabed may be:
- a pre-Christian Armenian thunder-god, Karapet.
- the Armenian version of "Carpathian"
Religion
- Karabet (Armenian) or Garabed (Western Armenian), the Armenian name for prodromos, referring to John the Baptist.
- St. Karapet, a church of the Noravank monastery
- Monastery of St. Karapet at Glak, a 4th-century Armenian monastery
- Karapet, a church of the Khtzkonk monastery near Ani
- Saint Karapet Church, Tbilisi, Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia
Given name
- Karapet
- Karapet II of Armenia (died 1729), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1726-1729)
- Karapet Chobanyan (1927-1978), Armenian scientist
- Karapet Derderian (1925-2007), Iranian Armenian poet
- Karapet Karapetyan (born 1982), also known as Karapet Papijan, Armenian-Dutch kickboxer
- Karapet Mikaelyan (born 1969), Russia-born Armenian football (soccer) player
- Karapet Rubinyan, Armenian politician
- Karapet Utudjian (1823-1904), Armenian Ottoman journalist, publicist, and writer
- Karapetê Xaço (?-2005), Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish dengbêj music
- Karapet (bridge player), fictional Armenian expatriate contract bridge player created by Victor Mollo (1909-1987)
- Garabed
- Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian, American politician of Armenian origin, who was the Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly
- Garabed T. K. Giragossian (20th century), Armenian engilneer
- Garabed Pashayan Khan, (1864-1915), Armenian physician, doctor and public activist.
- Garabed "Garo" Yepremian, (1944-2015), American football placekicker of Armenian origin
- Garabet
- Garabet Balyan, (1800–1866) Armenian Ottoman amira, renowned engineer
- Garabet Ibrăileanu (1871–1936), Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, editor, translator, sociologist, professor
- Garabet Yazmaciyan (1868–1929), Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.
See also
- Karapetyan / Garabedian
- Karo (name)
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