# Arabo

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{{Short description|Armenian fedayi leader}}
{{Infobox military person
| name               = Arabo
| native_name        = Արաբօ
| native_name_lang   = hy
| image              = Arabo.jpg
| image_size         = 200
| caption            = Arabo ({{circa|1890}})
| birth_date         = 1863
| death_date         = {{Death year and age|1895|1863}}
| birth_place        = Kurter village, [Bitlis Vilayet](/source/Bitlis_Vilayet), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
| death_place        = The road from [Khnus](/source/H%C4%B1n%C4%B1s) to [Mush](/source/Mu%C5%9F), Ottoman Empire
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| nickname           = 
| birth_name         = Arakel Mkhitarian
| allegiance         = {{flagicon image|Armenian Revolutionary Federation logo 1915.png}} [Dashnaktsutyun](/source/Dashnaktsutyun)
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| service_years      = late 1880s—1893
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| battles            = [Armenian national movement](/source/Armenian_national_movement)
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'''Arabo''' or '''Arapo''' ({{langx|hy|Արաբօ}}, 1863–1895), born '''Arakel Mkhitarian''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |year=1996 |chapter=Arabo |title=Haykakan hartsʻ hanragitaran |publisher=Haykakan hanragitaran hratarakchʻutʻyun |location=Erevan |editor-last=Khudaverdyan |editor-first=Kostandin |pages=[https://hy.wikisource.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%BB:%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%80%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%81_%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6_(Armenian_Question_Encyclopedia).djvu/52 52] |language=hy |trans-title=Armenian Question Encyclopedia}}</ref> was an [Armenia](/source/Armenia)n [fedayi](/source/Armenian_fedayi) of the late 19th century. He was a member of the [Armenian Revolutionary Federation](/source/Armenian_Revolutionary_Federation) (ARF) political party.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1988 |last=Chalabian|first=Antranig |title=General Andranik and the Armenian Revolutionary Movement |location=Michigan|ISBN=0-9622741-1-9}}</ref>

Arabo was born in the village of [Kurter](/source/A%C5%9Fa%C4%9F%C4%B1balc%C4%B1lar%2C_Bitlis) in the region of [Sasun](/source/Sasun_(historical_region)) in the [Bitlis vilayet](/source/Bitlis_vilayet).<ref name=":0" /> Arabo studied at the [Arakelots Monastery](/source/Arakelots_Monastery) school in [Mush](/source/Mu%C5%9F).<ref name=":0" /> Beginning in the late-1880s, he led the Armenian fedayi groups in Sasun and [Taron](/source/Taron_(historic_Armenia)).<ref name=":0" /> Initially, Arabo had formed a group modeled on those of the Kurdish bandits, to rob their enemies in turn and becoming a folk hero among Armenians. However, he became a revolutionary during his time in the Caucasus.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5QlAQAAMAAJ |title=Armenian Freedom Fighters: The Memoirs of Rouben Der Minasian |publisher=Hairenik Associates |year=1963 |location=Boston |pages=121 |oclc=742446430}}</ref> 

Starting in 1889, Arabo visited the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus) several times. In 1892, he was arrested by Turkish authorities and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, but escaped from prison and resumed his fedayi activities.<ref name=":0" /> He took part in the first [ARF](/source/Armenian_Revolutionary_Federation) conference in [Tiflis](/source/Tbilisi) in 1892.<ref name=":0" /> In spring of 1893, while returning to Ottoman Armenia from the Caucasus to help rebels from Sasun, he was killed in 1895 along with four of his comrades during a battle with Kurdish bands on the road from [Khnus](/source/H%C4%B1n%C4%B1s) to Mush.<ref>[http://www.genocide.ru/enc/arabo.htm Genocide.ru (Russian)]</ref>

==See also==
* "[Zartir lao](/source/Zartir_lao)", a popular folk song about Arabo
* [Armenian fedayi](/source/Armenian_fedayi)
* [Armenian national movement](/source/Armenian_national_movement)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.genocide.ru/enc/arabo.htm Arabo's Biography] {{in lang|ru}}

{{Armenian national liberation movement}}
{{Armenian nationalism}}

Category:1863 births
Category:1893 deaths
Category:People from Bitlis
Category:Armenian fedayi
Category:Armenian nationalists
Category:Armenian people imprisoned in the Ottoman Empire
Category:Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire
Category:Highwaymen

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