Halmstad

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Halmstad ['hulm-stɑː(d)] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan River in Halland in south-western Sweden. The river empties into the Kattegatt. The city itself has a population of 58,000, and is the seat of Halmstad Municipality (kommun), which includes the region around the city and has 88,000 inhabitants.

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Halmstad traces its history to the early Middle Ages, sometime around 1000-1100. The name Halmstad is first mentioned in the jordebog of Valdemar II of Denmark in 1231 as a King's mansion. The oldest known charter is from 1307.

The city mentioned in the jordebog was located further upstream, at a location known as Övraby. During the 1320s it was moved to a site at the mouth of the river, which was no doubt more accommodating to ocean-going vessels and closer to the oceanic roads around Scandinavia.

Halmstad, view from Tradecenter
Halmstad, view from Tradecenter

During the Kalmar Union – a Nordic Union between Sweden, Norway and Denmark which lasted between 1400-1520 – it was in Halmstad that the Union King was to be finally selected.

Swedish commander Engelbrekt and his troops burned the city in the 1430s, and the city was also besieged at the start of the Northern Seven Years' War in 1563. Furthermore, the city was burned to the ground in 1619, with the exception of stone building and the church.

The first May Day demonstration in Sweden was held in Halmstad in 1897.

Halmstad is one of 134 towns with the historical City status in Sweden.
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