Araden (Arabic: أرادن,[1] Kurdish: ئه‌رادن,[2] Syriac: ܐܪܕܢ)[3][nb 1] is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

[4][5] It is suggested that one or all of the churches of Mart Shmune, Sultana Mahdokht, and Mar Awda may have been constructed over a thousand years ago.

[9] Therefore, in 1850, 50-75 Chaldean Catholic families inhabited Araden, and were served by two functioning churches and one priest as part of the archdiocese of Amadiya.

[11] Araden was rebuilt in subsequent years, but its population continued to be targeted, resulting in the murder of three Assyrians in 1974-1975, and assassination of the village mukhtar (headman) Dinkha Eshaya in 1981.

[14] The village was completely destroyed and its inhabitants displaced by the Iraqi government in 1987 by which time Araden's population had grown to 220 families, and there were two schools.

[11] The conclusion of the Gulf War in 1991 spurred some of the village's former inhabitants to return,[11] and a number of houses were rebuilt with the support of Hanna Kello, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Amadiya, in 1992-1993.