Araden (Crete)

{{Short description|Ancient city-state in Greece}}

Araden ({{langx|grc|Ἀραδήν}}) was a town and polis (city-state){{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Crete|pages= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n1168 1152]-1153}} of ancient Crete.{{Cite Barrington|60}} Stephanus of Byzantium claims was Araden later name of, rather than a successor settlement to, Anopolis (Ἀνώπολις){{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ἀραδήν}}

Its site is located near modern Aradena.{{Cite DARE|28762}}