Tveit (municipality)
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Aerial view of Tveit (northeast of the fjord)
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| Coordinates: 58°13′40″N 8°07′13″E / 58.2279°N 08.1204°ECoordinates: 58°13′40″N 8°07′13″E / 58.2279°N 08.1204°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| Region | Southern Norway |
| County | Vest-Agder |
| District | Sørlandet |
| Municipality ID | NO-1013 |
| Adm. Center | Tveit |
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| • Total | 107 km2 (41 sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) |
| Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838 |
| Merged into | Kristiansand in 1965 |
Tveit is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The 107-square-kilometre (41 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The municipality was located in the northeastern part of the present-day municipality of Kristiansand along the river Topdalselva. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Tveit where Tveit Church is located.
The parish of Tveit 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 1965, the municipalities of Tveit (population: 2,802), Oddernes (population: 18,668), and Randesund (population: 1,672) were merged with the town of Kristiansand (population: 27,100) to form a new, larger municipality of Kristiansand.
The municipality (originally the parish) was named after the old Tveit farm (Old Norse: Þveit), since the first Tveit Church was built there. The name is identical with the word þveit which means "a piece of cleared land cut from a forest". The name spelled differently over the centuries: Tved, Thvet, and Tveid.
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