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116 km²

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Southern Norway

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Sørlandet

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Holum

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Holum is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 116-square-kilometre (45 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The administrative centre was the village of Krossen where Holum Church is located. The municipality was located in the northern part of the present-day municipality of Mandal.

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Map of 4519 Holum, Norway

History

The parish of Holme was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, most of Holum (population: 1,127) was merged with the town of Mandal and the municipality of Halse og Harkmark to form a new, larger Mandal municipality. The remainder of Holum (the Stubstad and Svalemyren areas, with a population of 9) was merged into the neighboring municipality of Søgne.

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Holme farm (Old Norse: Holeimr), since that is the location of Holum Church. The name is a combination of the word hol or hull meaning "hole" and the word heimr meaning "home". The spelling of the name was changed from Holme to Holum in 1911.

References

Holum Wikipedia


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