Fjotland (municipality)

Fjotland Municipality
Fjotland herred
View of the municipal church
View of the municipal church
Vest-Agder within Norway
Vest-Agder within Norway
Fjotland within Vest-Agder
Fjotland within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°31′30″N 06°59′34″E / 58.52500°N 6.99278°E / 58.52500; 6.99278
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictLister
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1841
 • Succeeded byKvinesdal Municipality
Re-established1 Jan 1858
 • Preceded byKvinesdal Municipality
Disestablished1 Jan 1963
 • Succeeded byKvinesdal Municipality
Administrative centreFjotland
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total600 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population
 (1963)
 • Total1,244
 • Density2.1/km2 (5.4/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1036[1]

Fjotland is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 600-square-kilometre (230 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1841 and again from 1858 until its dissolution in 1963. The administrative centre was the village of Fjotland where Fjotland Church is located. The municipality covered the northern part of the Kvinesdalen valley in the present-day municipality of Kvinesdal.[2]

  1. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  2. ^ Store norske leksikon. "Fjotland – tidligere kommune" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2016.