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Argeș () is a river of Southern Romania. It starts at the junction of headwaters Buda and Capra in the Făgăraș Mountains, in the Southern Carpathians and flows into the Danube at Oltenița. The main city on the Argeș is Pitești. Upstream, it is retained by the Vidraru Dam, which has created Lake Vidraru. ==Name== The river is believed to be the same as Ὀρδησσός ''Ordessus'', a name mentioned by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus.〔George Ioan Brătianu, ''Une énigme et un miracle historique: le peuple roumain'', Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1989, p.138〕 The etymology of Argeș 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 și pecenegi în sudul Transilvaniei", in Zeno-Karl Pinter, Ioan-Marian Țiplic, Maria-Emilia Țiplic (eds.), ''Relații 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 ''argiș'' (meaning "higher ground"). The earliest recorded variants of the name, referring to the city of Curtea de Argeș (lit. "The Court on the Argeș"), also suggest a derivation from this word: ''Argyas'' (1369), ''Argies'' (1379), ''Arghiș'' (1427), the river probably taking the name of the city.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Argeș River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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