Aden (disambiguation)
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Aden is a port city in Yemen. It may also refer to:
- Aden (colony), a former British colony and a state of the Federation of South Arabia surrounding the port of Aden
- Aden Protectorate, a former British protectorate consisting of the hinterland of the port of Aden and the Hadhramaut region.
- Gulf of Aden, located in the Indian Ocean between Yemen on the south coast of Arabia and Somalia on the Horn of Africa
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first president of Somalia
- ADEN cannon, a British-made 30mm cannon used on military aircraft
- Aden, a P&O ship that sank after being wrecked on a reef near Socotra, in 1897
- Adeno- or, before a vowel, aden-. In medical terminology, a prefix referring to a gland from the Greek word meaning originally "acorn." E.g., adenitis (inflammation of a gland), adenopathy ( or lymphadenopathy), adenoma (glandular growths).
- Aden, a fictional kingdom and its capital in Lineage 2 MMORPG
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