Slidre (municipality)

Slidre Municipality
Slidre herred
Oppland within Norway
Oppland within Norway
Slidre within Oppland
Slidre within Oppland
Coordinates: 61°05′17″N 8°58′53″E / 61.08802°N 8.98141°E / 61.08802; 8.98141
CountryNorway
CountyOppland
DistrictValdres
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1849
 • Succeeded byVestre Slidre and Øystre Slidre
Administrative centreSlidre
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total1,337 km2 (516 sq mi)
Population
 (1849)
 • Total5,536
 • Density4.1/km2 (11/sq mi)
DemonymSlidring[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-0543[2]

Slidre is a former municipality in the old Oppland county, Norway. The 1,337-square-kilometre (516 sq mi) municipality[3][4] existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1849 when it was divided into Vestre Slidre Municipality and Øystre Slidre Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Slidre.[5]

  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. ^ Helland, Amund (1913). "Vestre Slidre herred". V Kristians amt. Fjerde del. Norges land og folk (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 373. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. ^ Helland, Amund (1913). "Øystre Slidre herred". V Kristians amt. Fjerde del. Norges land og folk (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 400. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  5. ^ Mæhlum, Lars, ed. (12 February 2020). "Slidre". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 11 August 2022.