Sør-Frøya is a former municipality in the old

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...

county,

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. The municipality existed from 1906 until its dissolution in 1964. Sør-Frøya included the southwestern part of the island of Frøya in what is now the municipality of Frøya in

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county. The main population center of Sør-Frøya was the village of Titran on the western tip of the island. The main church for the municipality was

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(Sør-Frøya Church) which is located in Storhallaren on the southern coast of the island.

History

The municipality was established on 1 January 1906 when the old municipality of Frøien was divided into two new municipalities: Sør-Frøya in the south (population: 2,091) and Nord-Frøya in the north (population: 3,972). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the

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. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Sør-Frøya (population: 2,208) and Nord-Frøya (population: 4,348) were merged to form the municipality of Frøya.

Name

The municipality is named after the island of Frøya. The prefix means "southern", literally meaning the southern part of Frøya. The second part of the name comes from

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. Although ''Frøya'' is a variant of the name of the Norse goddess

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, the

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form of the name of the island was ''Frøy'' or ''Frey'' (the ending ''-a'' in the modern form is actually the definite article - so the meaning of ''Frøya'' is 'the Frøy'). Therefore, the name of the island probably has the same root as the name of the

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, brother to Freyja. The names originally were titles: "

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" or " lady". The oldest meaning of the common word was "(the one) in front; the foremost, the leading" and here in the sense "the island in front of

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". Until 1906, the name of the island and predecessor municipality was spelled ''Frøien'' (''-en'' is the definite article in Danish-Norwegian). When this new municipality was established in 1906, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Sørfrøya''. On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Sør-Frøya''.

Government

While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient

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services,

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social services Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organisations, or adminis ...

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, and municipal

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s. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a

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representatives, which in turn elected a

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Municipal council

The

of Sør-Frøya was made up of 17 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The

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breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Mayors

The

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of Sør-Frøya: * 1906–1910: Martin Bua ( V) * 1911–1913: Isak Gaustad ( H) * 1914–1919: Martin Bua ( V) * 1920–1925: Ludvig L. Flaahammer ( V) * 1926–1928: Julian Volden ( V) * 1929–1934: Ludvig L. Flaahammer ( V) * 1934–1941: Paul Martin Dahlø ( Ap) * 1941–1942: Olav Dahl ( NS) * 1942–1945: Julian Volden ( NS) * 1945–1947: Paul Martin Dahlø ( Ap) * 1948–1951: Oddmund Flaahammer ( V) * 1952–1955: Bjarne Wedø ( Ap) * 1956–1963: Olaf Fillingsnes ( Ap)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sor-Froya Frøya, Trøndelag Former municipalities of Norway 1906 establishments in Norway 1964 disestablishments in Norway