Øvre Sirdal

Øvre Sirdal
Øvre Sirdal herred
—  Former Municipality  —
Coordinates: 58°48′30″N 06°45′51″E / 58.80833°N 6.76417°E / 58.80833; 6.76417Coordinates: 58°48′30″N 06°45′51″E / 58.80833°N 6.76417°E / 58.80833; 6.76417
Country Norway
County Vest-Agder
District Sørlandet
Municipality ID NO-1047
Adm. Center Lunde
Split from Sirdal in 1905
Merged into Sirdal in 1960

Øvre Sirdal is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county in Norway. It is located in the northern part of the present-day municipality of Sirdal.

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Name

The name Øvre Sirdal means "upper Sirdal" since it was created from the northern part of the old Sirdal municipality. The Old Norse form of the name was Sírudalr. The first element is the genitive case of the river name Síra and the last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale". The meaning of the rivername is unknown (maybe "strong stream").[1]

History

The municipality of Øvre Sirdal was established on 1 January 1905 when the old Sirdal formannskapsdistrikt was split into two municipalities: Øvre Sirdal (population: 753) and Tonstad. On 1 January 1960, Øvre Sirdal was merged together with the neighboring municipality of Tonstad and the Øksendal area of the municipality of Bakke to form a new municipality of Sirdal.[2]

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