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Argos is a city in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece.
Argos or ARGOS may also refer to:
Places
- Argos (river), in Spain
- Argos, Indiana, a town in the United States
Greece
- Amphilochian Argos, an ancient settlement in Amphilochia
- Argos Orestiko, a town in the southwest-central part of Kastoria
- Argos Pelasgikon, an ancient settlement in Thessaly
- Argos Province, a former province in Argolis
In Greek mythology
- Argos (dog), Odysseus's faithful dog in Homer's Odyssey
- Argus (king of Argos), the son of Zeus and Niobe; Zeus's first child by a mortal
- Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant who guarded Io
- Argus (son of Arestor), the shipwright who built the Argo, the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed
- Argus, a son of Phrixus and Chalciope
Companies
- Argos Comunicación, a Mexican television and film company
- Argos North Sea Group, an oil company headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Argos (retailer), a major UK multi-channel retailer that forms part of Home Retail Group
- Inversiones Argos, a Colombian conglomerate
- Argos (cement company), a subsidiary
Science and technology
- Argos (EGFR Inhibitor), an inhibitor of the Drosophila EGFR pathway that neutralizes epidermal growth factor
- ARGOS (optics system), a multi-star optics system
- ARGOS (satellite) or the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite, US Air Force research and development space mission
- Argos System, a satellite-based system for environmental data collection
Sport
- Argonaut Rowing Club, a rowing club with ties to the Toronto Argonauts
- Argos-Shimano, a cycling team sponsored by Argos North Sea Group
- Argos, the short name for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League
Other uses
- ARGOS DSS, a Decision Support System for enhancing crisis management for incidents with CBRN releases
- Argos (Conan), a nation in the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian
- Argos (Stargate), a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 universe
- BRM Argos, Portuguese microlight aircraft
- Eddie Argos (born 1979), lead singer of English indie rock band Art Brut
- Minister Argos, villain from the manga and anime Great Mazinger
- Psilogramma argos, a moth of the Sphingidae family
- Renault Argos, a concept car
- Task Force Argos, a branch of the Queensland Police Service
See also
- All pages with titles containing Argos
- Agros (disambiguation)
- Argo (disambiguation)
- Argos Hill (disambiguation)
- Argosy (disambiguation)
- Argus (disambiguation)
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