Aradin
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| Coordinates | 37 ° 7 ′ N , 43 ° 19 ′ E | ||
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 Iraq
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| Autonomous Region | Kurdistan | ||
| Governorate | Dahuk | ||
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| height | 1146 m | ||
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Aradin ( Aramaic ܐܪܕܢ) is the Chaldean episcopal seat of the diocese , which previously had its seat in Amediye and is located in the Kurdish northern Iraq .
history
In 1850 there were 50 Christian households, two churches and a priest in the village; Francis Dawud († 1939) became the first bishop in 1910 with his seat in Aradin. The village in today's Iraqi Kurdish region is located at an altitude of 1,140 meters, 18 km west of Amediye. Until 1950 the village was also inhabited by Jews . After the bombing by the Iraqi air force in December 1961, the Christian population fled from the Kurds to Mosul and Baghdad . The place was plundered several times by the Kurds in the 1970s and in 1979 had around 3,000 inhabitants. During the Kurdish uprising in the 1980s, all the villages in a 20 km strip along the Turkish border were bombed and destroyed by the Iraqi government and razed to the ground with bulldozers. Until 1989 the place was deserted. Only after the worsening of the situation in the cities of Baghdad and Mosul did many Christians return to Aradin after 2005.
literature
- Kamal Y. Odisho Kolo, Heidy Margrit Müller: Once upon a time ... in Aradin . KITAB, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-902585-60-8 .