Grums Municipality (''Grums kommun'') is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl P ...

in west central

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. Its seat is located in the town of

Grums Grums is a locality and the seat of Grums Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of Swe ...

, with about 5,200 inhabitants. As so many of the municipalities of Sweden the present entity was created in 1971. The market town (''

köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word ''kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munici ...

'') Grums (instituted as such in 1948) was amalgamated with Ed and the

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Värmskog from the dissolved Stavnäs Municipality, thus forming Grums Municipality. Geographically it is situated on the north-west shore of

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in the province of

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ''Va ...

. Transportations are reliable with the

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intersecting the town. Historically the town was the center of the historical jurisdiction

Grums Hundred Grums Municipality (''Grums kommun'') is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Grums, with about 5,200 inhabitants. As so many of the municipalities of Sweden the present entity was created ...

, with its oldest

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stemming from 1617. The seal showed an accurate image of the local

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. The

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is derived from that of the

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. It also depicts three saw-blades, symbolizing the

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. The local

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is known as Grums medborgarparti, abbreviated ''gm''. It was founded in 1994, in the wake of the short-lived unconventional party

Ny Demokrati New Democracy ( sv, Ny Demokrati, NyD) was a political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1991 and elected into the Riksdag in the 1991 Swedish general election. It lost all its seats in the Riksdag in the subsequent election in 1994, and its ...

. The party was the municipality's third largest in the election of 1994 and 1998.

Localities

(seat) *

Slottsbron Slottsbron is a locality situated in Grums Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 1,039 inhabitants in 2010. Sports In Slottsbron there is a local sports club called Slottsbrons IF. Music Sven-Ingvars Sven-Ingvars is a Swedish pop/r ...

Segmon Segmon () is a locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality ...

* Borgvik * Liljedal In addition, the

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Värmskog, with 65 inhabitants (2000), is known as the birthplace of

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Lars Magnus Ericsson Lars Magnus Ericsson (; 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson ( incorporated as ''Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson''). Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, ...

References

External links

*
Grums Municipality
- Official site
grums.just.nu
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