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Uvdal Stave Church

Uvdal is a village and former municipality in Buskerud county, Norway.

The municipality was created by a split from Nore on 1 January 1901. The new municipality, which was called Opdal at the time, had a population of 1,429. The name was changed to Uvdal on 22 January 1932 by royal resolution. In 1937 a part of Uvdal with 220 inhabitants was moved to Hol municipality.

On 1 January 1962 Uvdal was reunited with Nore to form the new municipality Nore og Uvdal. Prior to the merger Uvdal had 1,213 inhabitants.

References

Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)