Feda (municipality)
Feda is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 66-square-kilometre (25 sq mi) municipality existed from 1900 until 1963. The administrative centre was the village of Feda where the Feda Church is located. Feda encompassed the far southern tip of the present-day municipality of Kvinesdal. It surrounded both sides of the 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) long Fedafjorden and the surrounding valleys.[1]
Feda herred | |
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 View of the mouth of the Fedaelva river and the Fedafjorden | |
  Feda herred Location of the municipality  Feda herred Feda herred (Norway) | |
| Coordinates: 58°16′00″N 06°49′11″E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Lister |
| Municipality ID | NO-1038 |
| Adm. Center | Feda |
| Area | |
| • Total | 66 km2 (25 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Created from | Kvinesdal in 1900 |
| Merged into | Kvinesdal in 1963 |
History
The municipality of Feda was created on 1 January 1900 when the old municipality of Kvinesdal was split into two separate municipalities: Feda (population: 1,090) and Liknes (population: 2,937). On 1 January 1963, Feda municipality was dissolved and it was merged with Kvinesdal municipality (in 1917 Liknes was renamed Kvinesdal) and Fjotland to create a new, larger municipality of Kvinesdal. Prior to the merger Feda had 576 inhabitants.[2]
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old "Fede" farm. The name of the farm comes from the name of the river Fedaelva which flows into the Fedafjorden near the farm.[3]
References
- Store norske leksikon. "Feda – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-09-14.
- Jukvam, Dag (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistisk sentralbyrå. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Rygh, Oluf (1912). Norske gaardnavne: Lister og Mandals amt (in Norwegian) (9 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 279.