Kyte
Hamlet
Kyte is located in Vestland
Kyte
Kyte
Location in Vestland county
Kyte is located in Norway
Kyte
Kyte
Kyte (Norway)
Coordinates: 60°40′19″N 6°30′41″E / 60.67194°N 6.51139°E / 60.67194; 6.51139
CountryNorway
RegionWestern Norway
CountyVestland
DistrictVoss
MunicipalityVoss
Elevation
[1]
289 m (948 ft)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code
5700 Voss

Kyte is a hamlet and basic statistical unit (grunnkrets) in the municipality of Voss in Vestland county, Norway.[2]

Kyte includes Nedra Kyte[3] (literally, 'lower Kyte'; elevation 270 meters or 890 feet)[1] to the southwest and Øvre Kyte[4] (literally, 'upper Kyte'; elevation 307 meters or 1,007 feet)[1] to the northeast.[5][6] The settlement is accessible via Norwegian County Road 308, also known as Kytesvegen 'Kyte Road'.[7]

The settlement was attested as Kytuin in 1303 (and as Kytin in 1417 and Kythen in 1468, among other names).[5] The name is originally a compound of *Kýt-(v)in; the first element may mean 'hump, rise' and the second element, vin, is a common Old Norse place-name element meaning 'meadow, pasture'.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Høydedata". Kartverket. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Folkemengde grunnkretser - 12 Hordaland". Statistisk sentralbyrå. Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Nedra Kyte, Voss (Hordaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Øvre Kyte, Voss (Hordaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 Rygh, Oluf (1910). Norske Gaardnavne. Oplysninger samlade til brug ved Matrikelens Revision. 11. Søndre Bergenhus amt. Kristiania: Fabritius. p. 541. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Helland, Amund Theodor (1921). Norges land og folk: Søndre Bergenhus amt. Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 959.
  7. ↑ "Norgeskart". Retrieved June 13, 2018.
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