Kvås (municipality)
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| Former Municipality | ||
View of a Kvås farm (1953)
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Kvås herred
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| Coordinates: 58°15′43″N 07°11′58″E / 58.26194°N 7.19944°ECoordinates: 58°15′43″N 07°11′58″E / 58.26194°N 7.19944°E | ||
| Country | Norway | |
| Region | Southern Norway | |
| County | Vest-Agder | |
| District | Lister | |
| Municipality ID | NO-1033 | |
| Adm. Center | Kvås | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 116 km2 (45 sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) | |
| Created from | Lyngdal in 1909 | |
| Merged into | Lyngdal in 1963 | |
Kvås is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 116-square-kilometre (45 sq mi) municipality existed from 1909 until its dissolution in 1963. The municipality today makes up the northern third of the present-day municipality of Lyngdal. The administrative centre of Kvås was the village of Kvås where Kvås Church is located. Other villages in the Kvås area are Birkeland and Moi.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Kvås farm (Old Norse: Kváss), since that is where the Kvås Church was located. The meaning of the name probably refers to a "valley" or "hollow".
The municipality of Kvås was established on 1 January 1909 when the old municipality of Lyngdal was divided into three new municipalities: Austad, Lyngdal, and Kvås (population: 736). On 1 January 1963, Austad (population: 608) and Kvås (population: 493) were re-incorporated into the municipality of Lyngdal along with the Gitlevåg area of the neighboring municipality of Spangereid.
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