page_title: Eide, Aust-Agder
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Eide, Aust-Agder / History
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Kart over Eide kommune, Aust-Agder. 1960
context_page_description: Eide is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is currently located within the municipality of Grimstad in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The municipality of Eide existed from 1838 until 1962. The 32.4-square-kilometre municipality was made up of 29.2 square kilometres on the mainland and the rest being nearly 70 small islands off the Skaggerak coast. The larger islands include Auseøya, Homborøya, and Ålesøya. The administrative centre was the village of Eide where the Eide Church is located. Other villages in Eide included Jortveit and Homborsund.
context_section_description: The municipality of Eide was created on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).  During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee.  On 1 January 1962, the area of Gitmarkgårdene, with 22 inhabitants, was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Lillesand.  The rest of the municipality of Eide, with 504 inhabitants, was merged into the neighboring municipality of Landvik.  Later, in 1971, Landvik was incorporated into the municipality of Grimstad.
caption: Map of the old Eide municipality.
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