Narek
Narek (in Armenian Նարեկ), an Armenian given name. Alternatively Nareg in Western Armenian
Places
- Narek, Ararat, village in Ararat province, Armenia
- Nareg Schools, series of Armenian Cypriot schools in Cyprus known as "Nareg" since 1972
- Narekavank was a historic Armenian monastery located in the village of Narek (the modern-day village Yemişlik in the Gevaş district of Turkey's Van Province)
Peoples
- St. Gregory of Narek, knowns also as Grigor Narekatsi (951 – 1003), Armenian monk, poet, philosopher, theologian, Doctor of the church
- Narek, the name commonly given to the "Book of Lamentations" by Gregory of Narek
- Narek Beglaryan (born 1985), Armenian football (soccer) player
- Narek Hakhnazaryan (born 1988), Armenian cellist
- Narek Sargsyan (born in 1959), chief architect of Yerevan and the former chief architect of Armenia
- Narek Seferjan (born 1974), Russian by nationality ethnic Armenian chess grandmaster, journalist and script writer
See also
- Narekavank, tenth-century Armenian monastery in the Vaspurakan province of historical Armenia near the southern shores of Lake Van (now in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey)
- Nārekān or Nārkan, an alternative name for Nukeh, a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Semnan County, Semnan Province, Iran
- Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York, Brooklyn, New York, US
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