Arcadia (disambiguation)
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Arcadia refers to more than one thing. It refers to several places as well as entities and organisations.
Places
There are several places known as Arcadia:
- Arcadia in Greece
- A region of Nova Scotia was known for some time as Acadia; its discoverer, Giovanni da Verrazano, was so impressed by the natural beauty of the region that he named it 'Archadia', after the Greek Arcadia.
Australia
Canada
United States of America
- Arcadia, California
- Arcadia, Florida
- Arcadia, Indiana
- Arcadia, Iowa
- Arcadia, Kansas
- Arcadia, Louisiana
- Arcadia, Missouri
- Arcadia, Nebraska
- Arcadia, New York
- Arcadia, Ohio
- Arcadia, Oklahoma
- Arcadia, Wisconsin
- Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan
- Arcadia, Maryland is a fictional city in the U.S. television show Joan of Arcadia.
- Arcadia Lake, Oklahoma
- Arcadia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Other uses of the name
- Arkadia.com is the name of a real estate company (http://www.arkadia.com).
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia was a complex tale written by Sir Philip Sidney.
- Arcadia is 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 is the title of a play by Tom Stoppard.
- Arcadia was the name of a 1980s synth-pop band created by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran.
- The Arcadia Conference was a World War II military conference held between the United Kingdom and the United States in Washington, D.C.
- Arcadia Corporation was the original name of video game company Starpath, which made hardware and software for the Atari 2600.
- Arcadia is the name of an NES game publisher, see Arcadia (game publisher).
- The Arcadia Group is a British group of companies owned by Philip Green which specialises in retail clothing. They are among the most popular of British stores, forming Britain's second largest clothes retailer.
- Arcadia was the name of one of the twin worlds in best-selling PC-game The Longest Journey. Arcadia was the world of magic, while its twin, Stark, was the world of science.
- Arcadia VZW is a Belgian organisation teaching and promoting spiritual self-development in the Wiccan religious path.
- Arcadia is the name of Captain Harlock's spaceship in the manga/anime-series by the writer/artist Leiji Matsumoto.
- Arcadia was the name of a collectible card game published by White Wolf, Inc. based on their Changeling: The Dreaming role-playing game.
- Arcadia was the name of a cruise ship. See [1] (http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/arcadia.htm)
- Arcadia Publishing - United States local community history publisher
- Joan of Arcadia is a CBS television drama
- Skies of Arcadia is a popular role-playing game for the Nintendo GameCube and the defunct Sega Dreamcast video game consoles.