# Argeș Region

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**Regiunea Argeș** (**Argeș Region**) was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative [divisions](/source/Regions_of_the_RPR) of the [People's Republic of Romania](/source/Communist_Romania), copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation. It existed until 1952, when its territory merged with [Vâlcea Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V%C3%A2lcea_Region&action=edit&redlink=1) to form **Pitești Region**. After the 1956 reorganisation, Pitești Region changed its name back to Argeș.

## History

The capital of the region was [Pitești](/source/Pite%C8%99ti), and its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays [Argeș County](/source/Arge%C8%99_County), before the 1956 reorganisation. After the reorganisation it also comprised some of the area of the current [Vâlcea](/source/V%C3%A2lcea_County) and [Argeș](/source/Arge%C8%99_County) counties.

## Neighbors

Argeș Region had as neighbors:

- 1950–1952: East: [Prahova Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prahova_Region&action=edit&redlink=1) and [București Region](/source/Bucure%C8%99ti_Region); South: [Teleorman Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleorman_Region&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Dolj Region](/source/Dolj_Region); West: [Vâlcea Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V%C3%A2lcea_Region&action=edit&redlink=1); North: [Sibiu Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sibiu_Region&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Stalin Region](/source/Stalin_Region).

- 1956–1968: East: [Ploiești Region](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ploie%C8%99ti_Region&action=edit&redlink=1); South: [București Region](/source/Bucure%C8%99ti_Region); West: [Oltenia Region](/source/Oltenia_Region); North: [Stalin Region](/source/Stalin_Region)/[Brașov Region](/source/Stalin_Region).

## Raions

Argeș Region had the following [raions](/source/Raion)

- 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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