Tidaholm Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Tidaholms kommun


county=Västra Götaland County
province=Västergötland
capital=Tidaholm


arearank=180th
area=525.02
arealand=520.33
populationrank=179th
population=12,653
densityrank=156th
populationdensity=24.3
website=http://www.tidaholm.se/
footnotes=Area & population from SCB as of December 31, 2006

Tidaholm Municipality ("Tidaholms kommun") is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Tidaholm.

The municipality is located on the banks of the river Tidan.

In the early 1970s a nation-wide local government reform was carried out in Sweden. Urban and rural areas were merged into larger unitary municipalities. The former "City of Tidaholm" (instituted in 1910) was in 1974 amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipality Hökensås and parts of Dimbo and Fröjered. The number of original entities (as of 1863) within the present municipality is 20.

Many well-preserved medieval churches stand in the municipality. Some church sites also contain examples of early Scandinavian runestones.

External links

* [http://www.tidaholm.se Tidaholm Municipality] - Official site