Bakke Municipality
Bakke herred | |
|---|---|
 View of a bridge in Bakke | |
 Vest-Agder within Norway | |
 Bakke within Vest-Agder | |
| Coordinates: 58°24′40″N 06°39′27″E / 58.41111°N 6.65750°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Lister |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1965 |
| • Succeeded by | Flekkefjord and Sirdal municipalities |
| Administrative centre | Sira |
| Area (upon dissolution) | |
| • Total | 244 km2 (94 sq mi) |
| Population (1965) | |
| • Total | 925 |
| • Density | 3.8/km2 (9.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1045[1] |
Bakke is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 244-square-kilometre (94 sq mi) municipality[2] existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. It was located in the present-day municipalities of Sirdal and Flekkefjord. It included the whole Sirdalen valley along the Rogaland county border, stretching from the Aust-Agder county border in the north to Sirnes and the lake Lundevatnet in the south. The administrative center was the village of Sira where Bakke Church is located.[3]
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Helland, Amund (1903). "Bakke herred". X Lister og Mandals amt. Anden del. Norges land og folk (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 607. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ^ Store norske leksikon. "Bakke – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 August 2016.