Arcadia

Arcadia may refer to:

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 hisotry

• 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

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 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

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.

Ships

• Arcadia (cruise ship), the 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

Business

• Arcadia Entertainment, a Canadian television production company.
• 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.
• Arkadia (shopping mall), a shopping mall in Warsaw, Poland.

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.
• The Arcadia is the vessel of Captain Harlock in the manga and anime of Leiji Matsumoto; Arcadia of My Youth is a film depicting the origin of this character.
• 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", 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 musican Sivert Høyem.
• Joan of Arcadia, a 2003–2005 United States CBS television drama.
• Arkadia (board game), a 2007 Spiel des Jahres-nominated board game.

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, the lost homeland of the fae in the role-playing game Changeling: The Dreaming.
• Arcadia, a planet mentioned in Doctor Who. The Doctor mentioned that he witnessed "the fall of Arcadia" during the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks.
• Arkadia, a subterranean world in the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
• The Arcadian Empire, a fictional empire in the video game Final Fantasy XII
• Arcadia is an underwater forest in the submerged city of Rapture in the game Bioshock.

See also

• Acadia (disambiguation)