MARK MUNICIPALITY

'Mark Municipality' is located in Västra Götaland County, in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the largest town Kinna (pop. 14,000).
The municipality was created with the municipal reform (see: Municipalities of Sweden) in the early 1970s and took its name from an old name of the hundred.
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Coat of arms

Sister cities

See also

External links

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was created and granted with the municipality in the 1970s. The ''circles'' in coat of arms come the 16th century insignia of the Mark hundred. The grain signifies the farming industry; and the thing at the right is a weaving tool; because the municipality had, and still has, a strong textile industry.

Sister cities

Mark has three sister cities. They have been focusing on towns or municipalities that also had a significant textile industry.

★ Szamotuly in Poland (since 1988). Sparked because of the awakened awareness of Nuclear power in Szamotuly, who wanted contacts with Swedish cities because of Sweden's ongoing nuclear debates.

★ Apolda in eastern Germany (cirka 1994/1995)

★ Ontinyent in Spain (since 2003)

See also

★ Mark Hundred

External links

★ Mark - Official site