Argeș Region

{{Unreferenced|date=April 2026}} '''Regiunea Argeș''' ('''Argeș Region''') was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative [[Regions of the RPR|divisions]] of the [[Communist Romania|People's Republic of Romania]], copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation. It existed until 1952, when its territory merged with [[Vâlcea Region]] to form '''Pitești Region'''. After the 1956 reorganisation, Pitești Region changed its name back to Argeș.

==History==

The capital of the region was [[Pitești]], and its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays [[Argeș County]], before the 1956 reorganisation. After the reorganisation it also comprised some of the area of the current [[Vâlcea County|Vâlcea]] and [[Argeș County|Argeș]] counties.

==Neighbors==

Argeș Region had as neighbors:

*1950–1952: East: [[Prahova Region]] and [[București Region]]; South: [[Teleorman Region]] and [[Dolj Region]]; West: [[Vâlcea Region]]; North: [[Sibiu Region]] and [[Stalin Region]]. *1956–1968: East: [[Ploiești Region]]; South: [[București Region]]; West: [[Oltenia Region]]; North: [[Stalin Region]]/[[Stalin Region|Brașov Region]].

==Raions== Argeș Region had the following [[raion]]s

*1950–1952: Pitești, Slatina, Costești, Muscel, Curtea de Argeș. *1956–1968: Pitești, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Slatina, Loviștea, Muscel, Curtea de Argeș, Costești, Topoloveni, Găești, Drăganești, Drăgășani, Băbeni-Bistrița, Horezu.

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