Buvik

Buvik Municipality
Buvik herred
Buviken herred  (historic name)
View of Buvika
View of Buvika
Sør-Trøndelag within Norway
Sør-Trøndelag within Norway
Buvik within Sør-Trøndelag
Buvik within Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 63°18′42″N 10°11′10″E / 63.31167°N 10.18611°E / 63.31167; 10.18611
CountryNorway
CountySør-Trøndelag
DistrictGauldalen
Established1855
 • Preceded byByneset Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1965
 • Succeeded bySkaun Municipality
Administrative centreBuvika
Population
 (1965)
 • Total1,267
DemonymBuvikværing[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1656[2]

Buvik is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. Buvik existed from 1855 until 1965. The municipality encompassed the extreme northeastern part of what is now the municipality of Skaun in Trøndelag county. It encompassed the roughly 25-square-kilometre (9.7 sq mi) area surrounding the Vigda river south of the Gaulosen fjord. The administrative centre was located in the village of Buvika.[3]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  3. ^ Store norske leksikon. "Buvik – tidl. kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 March 2011.