Editing Aden (section)

== Etymology ==
Aden is a home and a place for ships, and the word Aden means reside in the place, so the word "Aden" means resident, and it is said "Aden Al-Balad", meaning the settlement of the country.<ref>[https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/عدن/ '' عدن '' المعجم الوسيط] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117042727/http://www.almaany.com/home.php?language=arabic|date=17 يناير 2015}}</ref> Among the sayings of geographers about the city:

[[Yaqut al-Hamawi|Yaqut al-Hamwi]] said:<ref>معجم البلدان ج 4 - ص 89</ref> "It is a famous city on the coast of the Indian Sea, towards the Yemen, and it is poor, with no water or pasture. They drink from a spring between it and Aden, about a distance of about today, and despite that, it is bad, except that this place is the port for Indian ships, and merchants gather there for that reason, as it is a town of trade." And it is added to [[Abyan Governorate|Abyan]], which is the opposite of Aden in its entirety.

[[Ibn Manzur]] said:<ref>''لسان العرب '' ج10 ص 65</ref> "It is a country on the edge of the sea in the furthest part of Yemen."

[[Ibn Khaldun]] said:<ref>تاريخ ابن خلدون ج 4 ص 218</ref> "This Aden is one of the most fortified cities in Yemen, and it is on the bank of the Indian Sea. It is still a country of trade from the time of the Trabaids, and most of them were built with stones, which is why silk merchants visit it often."