Tidaholm

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Tidaholm


image_caption = Tidaholm pedestrian area
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Sweden
subdivision_type1 = Municipality
subdivision_name1 = Tidaholm Municipality
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Västra Götaland County
subdivision_type3 = Province
subdivision_name3 = Västergötland
area_footnotes = cite web |title=Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2000 och 2005 |publisher=Statistics Sweden |url=http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01B/T%E4torternami0810tab1.xls |format=xls |language=Swedish |accessdate=2008-05-15]
area_total_km2 = 5.67
population_as_of = 2005-12-31
population_footnotes =
population_total = 7,920
population_density_km2 = 1397
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd=58 |latm=11 |lats= |latNS=N
longd=13 |longm=57 |longs= |longEW=E
website =

Tidaholm is an industrial town in Västergötland, Sweden, and the seat of Tidaholm Municipality, Västra Götaland County.

Early Tidaholm was primarily an agricultural estate. 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 were begun by designers of matchbook labels.

In the center of the town is a hologram exhibition.

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.

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