Feda (municipality)


Feda is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1900 until 1963. The administrative centre was the village of Feda where the Feda Church is located. Feda encompassed the far southern tip of the present-day municipality of Kvinesdal. It surrounded both sides of the long Fedafjorden and the surrounding valleys.

History

The municipality of Feda was created on 1 January 1900 when the old municipality of Kvinesdal was split into two separate municipalities: Feda and Liknes. On 1 January 1963, Feda municipality was dissolved and it was merged with Kvinesdal municipality and Fjotland to create a new, larger municipality of Kvinesdal. Prior to the merger Feda had 576 inhabitants.

Name

The municipality is named after the old "Fede" farm. The name of the farm comes from the name of the river Fedaelva which flows into the Fedafjorden near the farm.