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Lindås is a municipality in the Nordhordland district in Hordaland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Knarvik, located in the southwestern part of the municipality. Other notable villages in the municipality include Alversund, Isdalstø, Lindås, Ostereidet, and Seim. The Mongstad industrial area in extreme northern Lindås has one of the largest oil refineries and largest seaports in Norway. The oil refinery at Mongstad is by far the largest employer in the municipality. ==General information== The parish of ''Lindaas'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 March 1879, the northeastern district of Lindaas was separated to form the new municipality of Masfjorden, leaving 6,374 inhabitants in Lindaas. On 1 January 1910, the northwestern island district of Lindaas was separated to form the new municipality of Austrheim. This left Lindaas with 4,433 residents. On 1 January 1964, a major municipal merger took place. The following places were merged into one large municipality of Lindås: *The Nipo, Dyrkelbotn, and Eitrdalen farms (population: 12) in extreme western Modalen municipality *All of Hosanger located north of the Osterfjorden (population: 791) *All of Hamre located north of the Osterfjorden (population: 1,240) *The whole municipality of Alversund (population: 2,099) *The Titland area (population: 40) from the municipality of Sæbø, northwest of the village of Seim *All of the old municipality of Lindås (population: 3,651) Also on this date, there were two other changes. The Sletta area (population: 305) on the island of Radøy was switched from Lindås to the new municipality of Radøy. The other change was the Einestrand, Eikebotn, and Kikallen areas (population: 25) was transferred from Lindås to Modalen municipality.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lindås」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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