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See Municipalities Of Sweden for the history behind the municipal reform.


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Most cities were formally granted their current coat of arms in 1974. Some municipalities based their arms on its previous city arms, while others designed wholly new arms. As some municipalites were at that time created by merging smalled communities, it led to city arms consisting of two parts, each derived from one of the communities. Some new municipalities also lacked a historical background or lacked any proper cities within, and created wholly new coat of arms.


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