Araden

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Aradin, Chaldean bishop of the diocese, which formerly had its headquarters in Amediye, located in Kurdish northern Iraq.

History

In 1850 there were 50 Christian households in the village, two churches and a priest; Francis Dawud († 1939) was the first bishop in 1910 with headquarters in Aradin. The city in today's Iraqi Kurdish region is 1,140 meters above sea level, 18 km west of Amediye. By 1950 the city was also inhabited by Jews. After the bombing of the Iraqi Air Force in December 1961, the Christian population fled the Kurds to Mosul and Baghdad. The place was looted in the 1970s several times by the Kurds and had about 3,000 inhabitants in 1979. In the uprising of the Kurds in the 1980s, all the villages were bombed in a strip of 20 km along the Turkish border by the Iraqi government and destroyed and razed by bulldozers to the ground. Until 1989, the place was deserted. Only after the deterioration of the situation in the cities of Baghdad and Mosul returned many Christians after 2005 back to Aradin.