Bakke, Norway
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Bakke is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.
It was created in 1837 as Bakke formannskapsdistrikt. According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 2,378. In 1849 the district Sirdal was separated from Bakke to become a municipality of its own, and on 31 December 1893 the same thing happened to Gyland. After the last split Bakke had a population of 1,368.
On 1 January 1960 the district Øksendal with 226 inhabitants was reunited with Sirdal, and on 1 January 1965 the rest of Bakke was incorporated into Flekkefjord. Prior to the merger Bakke had a population of 925.
[edit] References
- Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen".
- Registreringssentral for historiske data. Hjemmehørende folkemengde Vest-Agder 1801-1960. University of Tromsø. (Norwegian)
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