Argeş River

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image_caption = The Argeş in Mihăileşti-Cornetu
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district = Argeş, Dâmboviţa, Ilfov, Giurgiu, Călăraşi
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city = Curtea de Argeş, Piteşti, Olteniţa
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tributary_left = Buda, Râul Doamnei, Dâmboviţa
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map_caption = The Argeş in Romania

Argeş ( _hu. Argyas) is a river of Southern Romania. It starts at the junction of headwaters Buda and Capra in the Făgăraş Mountains, in the Southern Carpathians and flows into the Danube at Olteniţa.

The main city on the Argeş is Piteşti. Upstream, it is retained by the Vidraru Dam, which has created Lake Vidraru.

Name

The river is believed to be the same as "Ordessus", a name mentioned by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus. [George Ioan Brătianu, "Une énigme et un miracle historique: le peuple roumain", Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1989, p.138] The etymology of Argeş is not clear. Traditionally, it was considered that it's derived from the ancient name, through a reconstructed term, "Argessis". The capital of Dacian leader Burebista was named "Argedava", but it appears that it has no link with the name for the river.Alexandru Madgearu, "Români şi pecenegi în sudul Transilvaniei", in Zeno-Karl Pinter, Ioan-Marian Ţiplic, Maria-Emilia Ţiplic (eds.), "Relaţii interetnice în Transilvania, Sec. VI-XIII", Editura Economică, Bucharest, p.117. ISBN 973-709-158-2]

An alternate etymology derives the name of the river from a Pecheneg word, transliterated into Romanian as "argiş" (meaning "higher ground"). The earliest recorded variants of the name, referring to the city of Curtea de Argeş (lit. "The Court on the Argeş"), also suggest a derivation from this word: "Argyas" (1369), "Argies" (1379), "Arghiş" (1427), the river probably taking the name of the city.

Localities

The following localities are situated along the river Argeş, from source to mouth: Căpăţânenii Ungureni, Căpăţânenii Pământeni, Arefu, Poienarii de Argeş, Corbeni, Rotunda, Albeştii de Argeş, Curtea de Argeş, Băiculeşti, Merişani, Bascov, Piteşti, Găeşti, Bolintin-Deal, Adunaţii-Copăceni, and Olteniţa.

Tributaries

Argeş has for its left tributaries: Buda, Valea cu Peşti, Valea Lupului, Limpedea, Chiciura, Valea Iaşului, Vâlsan, Valea Satului, Râul Doamnei, Râncaciov, Cârcinov, Budişteanca, Sabar, Câlnău, Dâmboviţa, Rasa, and Luica.

Its tributaries on the right are Capra, Cumpăna, Valea lui Stan, Arefu, Băneşti, Valea Danului, Tutana, Schiau, Bascov, Neajlov and Zboiul.

References

Further reading

* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române, "Cadastrul Apelor", Bucharest
* Institutul de Meteorologie şi Hidrologie, "Rîurile României", Bucharest, 1971