Lista
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Lista is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.
The municipality was created as Lista formannskapsdistrikt in 1837. According to the 1835 census the new municipality had a population of 4,213. Parts of Lista with 99 and 64 inhabitants respectively were moved to Farsund municipality in 1903 and 1948.
On 1 January 1965 the rest of Lista was incorporated into Farsund along with Herad and Spind. Prior to the merger Lista had a population of 4,544.
Farsund Airport, Lista has no activity at this time, but there are discussions to use it as a base for offshore operations.
[edit] References
- Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen". (Norwegian)
- Registreringssentral for historiske data. Hjemmehørende folkemengde Vest-Agder 1801-1960. University of Tromsø. (Norwegian)
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