Arcadia (disambiguation)
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Arcadia may refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Arcadia in Greece
- Arcadia Ægypti a region of Roman-controlled Egypt
- Acadia, a region of Nova Scotia; its discoverer, Giovanni da Verrazano, was so impressed by the natural beauty of the region that he named it 'Archadia', after the Greek Arcadia.
[edit] Australia
[edit] Canada
- Arcadia, Nova Scotia
- Arcadia, Alberta
[edit] South Africa
[edit] Ukraine
[edit] United States of America
- Arcadia, California
- Arcadia, Florida
- Arcadia, Indiana
- Arcadia, Iowa
- Arcadia, Kansas
- Arcadia, Louisiana
- Camp Arcadia, Casco, Maine
- Arcadia, Missouri
- Arcadia, Nebraska
- Arcadia, New York
- Arcadia, North Carolina
- Arcadia, Ohio
- Arcadia, Oklahoma
- Arcadia, Wisconsin
- Arcadia College, Missouri
- Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma
- Arcadia Creek: a subwatershed which lies within portions of Oshtemo Township and the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan
- Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania
[edit] Mars
- Arcadia Planitia, a plain on the planet Mars
[edit] Other uses of the name
[edit] Politics
- The Arcadia Conference, a World War II military conference held in Washington, D.C.
- The Parliament of Finland is located on Arkadianmäki, or the "Arcadia Hill" in Helsinki.
[edit] Ships
- Arcadia (cruise ship), the largest in the P&O cruise fleet, introduced in 2003
- Ocean Village (ship), a P&O cruise ship sailed under than name "Arcadia" from 1997 to 2003
- SS Arcadia (1954) a P&O ocean liner, operated as a cruise ship until scrapped in 1979
- SS Arcadia (1888), the first P&O ship to carry the name
[edit] Business
- Arcadia Group, a British group of retail clothing companies owned by Philip Green
- Arcadia Publishing, United States publisher of local community histories
- Arcadia Systems, the arcade-games division of Mastertronic, which was also used as a software label
- Arcadia VZW, a Belgian organisation teaching and promoting spiritual self-development in the Wiccan religious path
- Arcadia Corporation, the original name of video game company Starpath
[edit] Literature
- Arcadia (book), a book by Jim Crace
- Arcadia (play), a play by Tom Stoppard
- Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, a complex tale written by Sir Philip Sidney
- Arcadia, a Renaissance pastoral poem by Jacopo Sannazaro
[edit] Entertainment
- Arcadia (band), a 1980s synth-pop band created by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.
- Arcadia (card game), a collectible card game published by White Wolf, Inc. based on their Changeling: The Dreaming role-playing game.
- Arcadia (computer game), a computer game.
- Arcadia (magazine), a Japanese arcade gaming magazine by Enterbrain.
- Joan of Arcadia, a United States television drama, aired on CBS.
- Skies of Arcadia, a computer role-playing game for the Nintendo GameCube and the Sega Dreamcast video game consoles.
- Emerson Arcadia 2001, a video game console.
- "Arcadia", an episode of The X-Files, regarding an apparently ideal gated community named The Falls at Arcadia.
- Arcadia festival, a videogames festival held in Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
[edit] Fictional places
- Arcadia (utopia), a rural idyll in a fantasy realm, another world, or an alternate dimension (often the realm of Faerie), in countless pieces of literature, movies, television shows, games and comic books
- Arcadia (plane) is a plane of existence in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
- Arcadia (The Longest Journey), one of the twin worlds in the computer adventure game The Longest Journey
- Arkadia is a subterranean world in the French cartoon series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
- Neo Arcadia, a Utopia in the Mega Man Zero game series
- Arcadia, a planet in the Doctor Who novel Deceit
- Arcadia is the lost homeland or paradise of the fae in the role playing game Changeling The Dreaming
- GTI Arcadia, the designation of a space station in the Descent: FreeSpace computer game series
- Arcadia, Maryland, a fictional city in the U.S. television show Joan of Arcadia
- Arcadia, Captain Harlock's spaceship in several manga/anime series