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''Stad'' (Swedish: "town; city"; plural ''städer'') is a Swedish term that historically has used for urban centers of various sizes. Since 1971, ''stad'' has no administrative or legal significance in Sweden. ==History == The status of towns in Sweden was formerly granted by a royal charter, comparable to the United Kingdom's status of borough or burgh before the 1970s or city status today. Unless given such town privileges, a municipality could not call itself ''stad''. To receive the privileges, there were several requirements a municipality needed to fulfill, like being of a certain size, and to have certain facilities. The criteria varied over time as they were at the discretion of the Riksdag or the monarch, but they could included a permanent town council hall and a prison. In the majority of cases, before a town received its charter, it would have previously been given the status of ''köping'' or "merchant town". Exceptions to this would be when a town was founded under Royal supervision, in which case it would often bear the name of the monarch, such as Kristianstad or Karlskrona (named after kings Christian IV of Denmark and Karl XI of Sweden). In the Late Middle Ages, c. 1450, Sweden (excluding Finland) had 41 chartered towns. By 1680 there were 83. The only town founded and chartered during the 18th century was Östersund (1786). In 1863 the first local government acts were implemented in Sweden. Of the around 2,500 municipalities that were created, 88 were chartered towns. The main difference between these and other municipalities was that a ''stad'' had its own jurisdiction, i.e. independent town courts. There were also laws on urban planning and building (''Byggnadstadgan 1874''), fire prevention (''Brandstadgan 1874''), public order (''Ordningsstadgan 1868'') and public health (''Hälsovårdsstadgan 1874'') which were compulsory applicable to towns. Prior to 1900, the two minor towns of Borgholm and Haparanda lost their courts, but retained the title of ''stad''. Of the new towns chartered between 1901 and 1951 (44, making the total number of towns 133), not a single one was given its own jurisdiction, but remained under what was called ''landsrätt'' ("rural jurisdiction"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stad (Sweden)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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