Municipalköping was a type of local government (municipality) in

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. Mostly these were minor trade towns with very limited city rights (market rights), which were delegated from larger cities in the same region. In 1863 the first

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acts were implemented in Sweden. Officially, the term ''municipalköping'' disappeared with this reform. There were two acts in the 1863 reform, one for towns and one for rural areas. But under the "rural" act there were also eight market towns, which were instituted as municipalities. This third category included ''

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 Munic ...

'', ''municipalköping'' and ''municipalsamhälle''. Most of the 95 ''köpingar'' became municipalities. The last ''municipalköping'' was incorporated into a large municipality in 1956. Those market towns that did not develop into a municipality are now occasionally referred to as ''municipalköping'', which is more a cultural term in the present-day language.

Settlements that were ''municipalköpingar''

Settlements that were ''municipalköpingar''

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