Hammer og Hosanger was an administrative entity in Hordaland county, Norway.

It was an electoral district up to and including the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1882, whence electors were sent to a countywide electoral college. Ahead of the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1885 Alversund was demerged as its own electoral district.[1]

Correspondingly, Alversund was demerged as its own bailiff district on 1 January 1887.[2]

It has also been claimed that Hammer og Hosanger was a municipality from 1837 to January 1, 1885.[3] Hosanger and Hammer were actually different municipalities; from Hosanger, Modalen was split in 1910, and from Hammer, Alversund was split in 1885 (and from it Meland in 1923) and Åsane in 1904.

References

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  1. ^ Morgenbladet, 21 October 1885, p. 1
  2. ^ Norsk Kundgjørelsestidende, 5 August 1886
  3. ^ Dag Juvkam / Statistics Norway (1999). "Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen" (PDF) (in Norwegian).

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