Fljótahreppur was a

hreppur A hreppur () is a type of rural municipality in Iceland. These administrative units primarily consist of small rural villages, often with few or no towns, and are overseen by a . The ''hreppur'' is one of Iceland’s oldest administrative units, ...

, an old Icelandic municipality, located in the northernmost part of Skagafjörður County,

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

and to the east of the

fjord In physical geography, a fjord (also spelled fiord in New Zealand English; ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Antarctica, the Arctic, and surrounding landmasses of the n ...

itself. Fljótahreppur is named after the district of Fljót. Fljótahreppur was split into

Haganeshreppur Haganeshreppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in Fljót, in the northernmost part of Skagafjörður County, Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arcti ...

and

Holtshreppur Holtshreppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in Fljót in the northernmost part of Skagafjörður County, Iceland. It was named after Stóra-Holt in Fljót, which was the location of the local parliament from early centuries unt ...

in 1898 (or possibly 1899) but they were reunited under the same name on April 1, 1988. On June 6, 1988, Fljótahreppur joined ten other local governments to form Skagafjörður county: Skefilsstaðahreppur,

Sauðárkrókur Sauðárkrókur () is a Localities of Iceland, town on the Skagafjörður in northern Iceland. It is the seat of both the Skagafjörður (municipality), Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður ('Municipality of Skagafjörður') and the Northwestern Re ...

, Skarðshreppur, Staðarhreppur, Seyluhreppur, Lýtingsstaðahreppur,

Rípurhreppur Rípurhreuppur was a hreppur, an old Icelandic municipality, in the middle of Skagafjörður County, Iceland, named after the Ríp church site in Hegranes. On June 6, 1998, Rípurhreppur joined ten other local governments to form Skagafjörðu ...

, Viðvíkurhreppur, Hólahreppur, and Hofshreppur.

Hreppur council

The last Fljótahreppur council was elected in the hreppur committee election on May 28, 1994, in which Guðrún Halldórsdóttir, Gunnar Steingrímsson, Haukur Ástvaldsson, Hermann Jónsson, and Örn Þórarinsson were voted into office.

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Northwestern Region (Iceland) Skagafjörður