Hosanger

Hosanger Municipality Hosanger herad
Former municipality
View of the lake Kossdalsvatnet
Hordaland within Norway
Hosanger within Hordaland
Coordinates: 60°34′30″N 05°28′39″E / 60.57500°N 5.47750°E / 60.57500; 5.47750
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Nordhordland
Established	1 Jan 1838
• Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished	1 Jan 1964
• Succeeded by	Osterøy and Lindås municipalities
Administrative centre	Hosanger
Area  (upon dissolution)
• Total	228 km2 (88 sq mi)
Population  (1964)
• Total	2,442
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1253[1]
Data from Statistics Norway

Hosanger is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality was located in what is now parts of Alver Municipality and Osterøy Municipality in Vestland county. It originally covered all the lands on both sides of the Osterfjorden-Romarheimsfjorden from the Lonevågen fjord all the way east to the county border at the end of the Modalen valley. Hosanger also included an exclave on the Lindås peninsula surrounding the village of Seim at the southern end of the Lurefjorden. Seim was separated from the rest of Hosanger by part of Lindås Municipality. Over time, the areas of Seim and Modalen were split off from Hosanger. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Hosanger on the island of Osterøy, where Hosanger Church is located.^[2]