Arcadia (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Geography 2 Politics 3 Ships 4 Business 5 Art and entertainment 6 Fictional places 7 See also

Arcadia may refer to:

[edit] Geography

• Arcadia, a region in Greece
• Arcadia Ægypti, a region of Roman-controlled Egypt
• Arcadia Planitia, a plain on the planet Mars
• Arcadia, New South Wales, Australia
• Arcadia, Victoria, Australia
• Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
• Arcadia Beach, Odessa, Ukraine

In North American history

• Acadia, former French colony ("l'Acadie") named after the Greek Arcadia, in parts of the present Canadian New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, and the American state of Maine
  • The Acadians, its inhabitants and their descendants (see also History of the Acadians)
  • Cajuns, variant of "Arcadians", expelled to Louisiana in the Great Upheaval of 1755
  • Acadia Parish, Louisiana, settled by them
  • Acadian French
  • Cajun French

In Canada:

• Arcadia, Nova Scotia
• Arcadia, Alberta

In the United States of America:

• Arcadia, California
• Arcadia, Florida
• Arcadia, Indiana
• Arcadia, Iowa
• Arcadia, Kansas
• Arcadia, Louisiana
• Arcadia, Maryland, a town which was the model for Arcadia in the television show Joan of Arcadia
• Arcadia, Missouri
• Arcadia, Nebraska
• Arcadia, New York
• Arcadia, North Carolina
• Arcadia, Ohio
• Arcadia, Oklahoma
• Arcadia, Wisconsin
• Arcadia College, Missouri
• Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma
• Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, Michigan
• Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan
• Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania

[edit] Politics

• The Arcadia Conference, a World War II military conference held in Washington, D.C.
• The Parliament of Finland, located on Arkadianmäki, or the "Arcadia Hill" in Helsinki

[edit] Ships

• Arcadia (ship), the second largest ship in the Peninsular & Oriental cruise fleet, introduced in 2003
• Ocean Village (ship), a P&O cruise ship that sailed under the name Arcadia from 1997 to 2003
• SS Arcadia (1954), a P&O ocean liner and cruise ship until scrapped in 1979
• SS Arcadia (1888), the first P&O ship to carry the name
• USS Arcadia (AD-23), a destroyer tender in the United States Navy
• Arcadia, a ship built and launched in 1817 at Arcadia, Nova Scotia

[edit] Business

• Arcadia Entertainment, a Canadian television production company
• Arcadia Group, a British group of retail clothing companies owned by Sir 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 Corporation, the original name of video game company Starpath

[edit] Art and entertainment

• "Arcadia", a Renaissance pastoral poem by Jacopo Sannazaro
• The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, a 16th century work of literature by Sir Philip Sidney
• Et in Arcadia ego ("I am even in Arcadia," implied to be said by Death), two paintings by Nicolas Poussin
• Arcadia of My Youth, an anime film depicting the origin of Leiji Matsumoto's seminal character Captain Harlock
• Arcadia (computer game), a 1982 computer game
• The Emerson Arcadia 2001, a video game console
• Arcadia (band), a 1980s synth-pop band created by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran
• Arcadia (play), a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard
• Arcadia (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files regarding a gated community named "The Falls at Arcadia"
• Skies of Arcadia (originally Eternal Arcadia), a 2000 role-playing game for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube video game consoles
• "Arcadians," a song by the Norwegian musician Sivert Høyem
• Joan of Arcadia, a 2003–2005 United States television drama on CBS

[edit] Fictional places

• Arcadia (utopia), a rural idyll in a fantasy realm, another world, or an alternate dimension (often the realm of Faerie), in many pieces of fiction
• Arcadia (Dungeons & Dragons), an Outer Plane of existence in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, aligned between Lawful Neutral and Lawful Good
• Arcadia (The Longest Journey), one of the twin worlds in the computer adventure game The Longest Journey
• Neo Arcadia, a place in the Mega Man Zero game series
• Arcadia, a garden in the game BioShock

[edit] See also

• Arkadia
• Acadia (disambiguation)