Sarıdana (; ) is a village in the Şirvan District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 252 in 2021. It is located in the Botan valley.
History Semḥōr (today called Sarıdana) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. Syriacs from the village emigrated to Istanbul in the 1840s. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 57 households, who paid 469 dues, and had one priest, but did not have a church. According to Raymond Kévorkian, it was populated by Armenians and adherents of the Church of the East. It was the largest non-Muslim village in the Şirvan District. The village was not affected by the Hamidian massacres in 1895 as it was protected by a hired Kurdish guard. By 1898, there were 50 Syriac households, according to James Henry Monahan, the British Vice-Consul of Bitlis.
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