Eide, Aust-Agder

This article is about the former municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway. For other uses, see Eide (disambiguation).
Eide Municipality
Eide herred
Former municipality
View of Eide Church
View of Eide Church
Aust-Agder within Norway
Aust-Agder within Norway
Eide within Aust-Agder
Eide within Aust-Agder
Coordinates: 58°16′11″N 08°28′41″E / 58.26972°N 8.47806°E / 58.26972; 8.47806
CountryNorway
CountyAust-Agder
DistrictØstre Agder
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1964
 • Succeeded byLandvik Municipality
Administrative centreEide
Area
 (upon dissolution)[1]
 • Total32.4 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Population
 (1962)
 • Total504
 • Density16/km2 (40/sq mi)
DemonymEidesokning[2]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-0925[3]
Data from Statistics Norway

Eide is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in Agder county. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The 32.4-square-kilometre (12.5 sq mi) municipality included 29.2 square kilometres (11.3 sq mi) of land on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya.[1] The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NLF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.