Arges or Argeș may refer to:
Places and jurisdictions
Romania
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Argeș County
Argeș County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Pitești.
Demographics
On 20 October 2011, it had a population of 612,431 and the population density was 89/km2.
* Romanians – 97%
* Roma (Gypsi ...
, a county in Muntenia, with its capital at Pitești
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Argeș Region Regiunea Argeș (Argeș Region) was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation. It existed until 1952, when its territory merged wi ...
, an administrative division from 1950 to 1952
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Argeș River, which flows through the Southern Carpathians into the Danube at Oltenița
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Curtea de Argeș
Curtea de Argeș () is a municipality in Romania on the left bank of the river Argeș, where it flows through a valley of the Southern Carpathians (the Făgăraș Mountains), on the railway from Pitești to the Turnu Roșu Pass. It is part ...
, a city of Muntenia in the lower Carpathians; it is/was the archepiscopal see of :
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Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel
The Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel ( ro, Arhiepiscopia Argeșului și Muscelului) is a diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Its see is the Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral in Curtea de Argeș and its ecclesiastical territory covers Arge ...
, a diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church
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Albeștii de Argeș
Albeștii de Argeș is a commune in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, ...
, a commune in Argeș County
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, a commune in Argeș County
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Ținutul Argeș
Ținutul Argeș (or Ținutul Bucegi) was one of the ten Romanian ''ținuturi'' ("lands") founded in 1938, after King Carol II initiated an institutional reform by modifying the 1923 Constitution and the law of territorial administration. Named aft ...
, an administrative division from 1938 to 1940
Iran
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Arges-e Olya
Arges-e Olya ( fa, ارگس عليا, also Romanized as Ārges-e ‘Olyā; also known as Qal‘eh Rafī‘) is a village in Kamazan-e Sofla Rural District, Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the I ...
, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
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Arges-e Sofla
Arges-e Sofla ( fa, ارگس سفلي, also Romanized as Arges-e Soflá and Argas Sofla; also known as Areks, Areks-e Soflá, Erkes-e Pā’īn, and Erkes-e Soflá) is a village in Kamazan-e Sofla Rural District, Zand District, Malayer County, Ha ...
, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
Other uses
* A Kurdish male name
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Arges (Cyclops)
Arges ( gr, Ἄργης) was one of the three Hesiodic Cyclopes in Greek mythology. He was elsewhere called Acmonides or Pyracmon. His name means "bright" and represents the brightness from lightning.
Birth and forging of the lightning bolt
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, also called Acmonides or Pyraemonone, one of the cyclopes in Greek mythology
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Argeș (flamethrower) Argeș was a portable Romanian flamethrower designed at the end of the 1930s by the Army's study and experiment laboratory, located in the building of the Obor mask factory. It was adopted by the Romanian Land Forces
The Romanian Land Forces ( ro ...
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Arges project, a research project in the field of metal-halide lamps
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FC Argeș Pitești
Asociația Clubul Sportiv Campionii Fotbal Club Argeș, commonly known as FC Argeș or Argeș Pitești (), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Pitești, Argeș County, which competes in the Liga I.
The team was or ...
, a Romanian Liga I football club
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Constantin Dobrescu-Argeș
Constantin I. Dobrescu, better known as Dobrescu-Argeș (June 28, 1856 – December 10, 1903), was a Romanian peasant activist and politician, also noted as a teacher, journalist, and jurist. Active from his native Mușătești, in Argeș County ...
, Romanian politician
See also
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Argis
Argis is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.
Geography
Argis is in the mountains of the southern Jura in the mountains of Bugey in the valley of the Albarine between Tenay and Saint-Ramber ...
, a French commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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