Kvås is a village in

Lyngdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alleen ...

municipality in

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county,

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. The village is located in the

Lyngdalen Lyngdalen is a valley in Agder county, Norway. The long valley runs north–south through the municipalities of Hægebostad and Lyngdal. The valley follows the river Lygna from the mountain plateaus in northern Hægebostad to the Lyngdalsfjorde ...

valley, along the river

Lygna Lygna or Lyngdalselva is a river in Agder county, Norway. The river runs from the mountains in northern Hægebostad municipality, through the Lyngdalen valley to the municipality of Lyngdal to its mouth at Alleen, where it runs into Lyngdalsfjo ...

, about northeast of the municipal centre of Alleen and about west of the village of Konsmo. The Kvås Church lies at the center of the village. Kvås was the

administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...

of the old municipality of Kvås from 1909 until its dissolution in 1963.

Name

The village (originally the

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) is named after the old ''Kvås'' farm (

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: ''Kváss''), since that is where the Kvås Church is located. The meaning of the name probably refers to a "

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

" or "hollow".

References

Villages in Agder Lyngdal {{Agder-geo-stub