Kvås (municipality)
Kvås herred | ||
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Former Municipality | ||
View of a Kvås farm (1953) | ||
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![]() ![]() Kvås herred ![]() ![]() Kvås herred Location of the municipality | ||
Coordinates: 58°15′43″N 07°11′58″E / 58.26194°N 7.19944°ECoordinates: 58°15′43″N 07°11′58″E / 58.26194°N 7.19944°E | ||
Country | Norway | |
Region | Southern Norway | |
County | Vest-Agder | |
District | Lister | |
Municipality ID | NO-1033 | |
Adm. Center | Kvås | |
Area[1] | ||
• Total | 116 km2 (45 sq mi) | |
Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) | |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) | |
Created from | Lyngdal in 1909 | |
Merged into | Lyngdal in 1963 |
Kvås is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 116-square-kilometre (45 sq mi) municipality existed from 1909 until its dissolution in 1963. The municipality today makes up the northern third of the present-day municipality of Lyngdal. The administrative centre of Kvås was the village of Kvås where Kvås Church is located. Other villages in the Kvås area are Birkeland and Moi.[1]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Kvås farm (Old Norse: Kváss), since that is where the Kvås Church was located. The meaning of the name probably refers to a "valley" or "hollow".[2]
History
The municipality of Kvås was established on 1 January 1909 when the old municipality of Lyngdal was divided into three new municipalities: Austad, Lyngdal, and Kvås (population: 736). On 1 January 1963, Austad (population: 608) and Kvås (population: 493) were re-incorporated into the municipality of Lyngdal along with the Gitlevåg area of the neighboring municipality of Spangereid.[3]
See also
References
- 1 2 Store norske leksikon. "Kvås – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-10-08.
- ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 252.
- ↑ Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå.