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Country
  
Sweden

County
  
Västra Götaland County

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
5.67 km²

Local time
  
Friday 8:39 PM

Province
  
Västergötland

Municipality
  
Tidaholm Municipality

Climate
  
Dfb

Population
  
8,027 (31 Dec 2010)

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Weather
  
9°C, Wind E at 6 km/h, 89% Humidity

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Tidaholm is a locality and the seat of Tidaholm Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden, with 8,027 inhabitants in 2010.

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Map of Tidaholm, Sweden

History

Early Tidaholm was primarily agricultural. An ironworks factory was established in 1799 at the site of the Holmagarden forge. The ironworks were replaced in 1868 by a match factory. The Vulcan match factory eventually became the largest in the world. Today, the Lithographic Art Workshop in Tidaholm is in the former factory and carries on Tidaholm's tradition of the lithographic arts that began with designers of matchbox labels.

Tidaholm was detached from Baltak parish as a merchant town (köping) in 1895 and was made a city in 1910. It has been the seat of the much larger Tidaholm Municipality since 1974. Tidaholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities.

Culture

In the centre of the town there is a hologram exhibition.

References

Tidaholm Wikipedia