Edøy
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Edøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, located in the southern part of Smøla.
It was created as Edøy formannskapsdistrikt in 1837. A royal resolution of 3 May 1873 directed that Tustern parish be separated from Edøy to create a separate municipality. This happened on 1 January 1874, leaving Edøy with 2,166 inhabitants. On 1 January 1915 the districts of Hopen and Brattvær were separated from Edøy to create distinct municipalities. This split left Edøy with a population of 973.
On 1 January 1960 the 1915 partition was reversed, reuniting the municipalities Brattvær, Edøy and Hopen under the new name Smøla. Prior to the merger Edøy had a population of 1,135.
[edit] References
- Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway (1999). Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdfl. (Norwegian)
- "Administrasjonshistorisk oversyn for Tustna kommune" (in Norwegian). http://asp.ikamr.no/Kommunehistorikk/tustna.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-19.
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