Evje og Vegusdal

Evje og Vegusdal Municipality
Evje og Vegusdal herred
Evje Church cemetery and farm
Evje Church cemetery and farm
Aust-Agder within Norway
Aust-Agder within Norway
Evje og Vegusdal within Aust-Agder
Evje og Vegusdal within Aust-Agder
Coordinates: 58°35′23″N 8°00′37″E / 58.5897°N 08.0104°E / 58.5897; 08.0104
CountryNorway
CountyAust-Agder
DistrictSetesdal
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1877
 • Succeeded byEvje and Vegusdal municipalities
Administrative centreEvje
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total
510 km2 (200 sq mi)
DemonymsEvdøl
Veggdøl[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-0934[2]

Evje og Vegusdal is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The 510-square-kilometre (200 sq mi)[3] municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1877. It was located in the Setesdal region in parts of the present-day municipalities of Evje og Hornnes and Birkenes. The administrative centre was the village of Evje where the Evje Church is located.

  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. ^ Kiær, Anders Nicolai; Helland, Amund; Vibe, Johan; Strøm, Boye (1904). Norges land og folk: Nedenes amt (in Norwegian). Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 368. Retrieved 19 December 2020.