Until 1 January 2007 Tommerup municipality was a municipality (
Danish
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Funen County
Funen County ( da, Fyns Amt) is a former county (Danish: ''amt'') in central Denmark, comprising the islands of Funen, Langeland, Tåsinge, Ærø, and approximately 90 other islands, of which only 25 are inhabited. The county was formed on 1 A ...
in central
Denmark
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. The municipality covered an area of 74 km2, and had a total population of 7,865 (2006). Its last mayor was Finn Brunse, a member of the
Social Democrats
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(Socialdemokraterne)
political party
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.
The municipality's main city and the site of its municipal council was Tommerup.
The municipality was created in 1970 due to a ("Municipality Reform") that combined the following
parish
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es:
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Broholm
Broholm is an estate and manor house in the parish of Gudme, some northeast of Svendborg, on the Danish island of Funen. The private estate has 591 ha, 168 ha being arable, 395 ha being forest and 28 ha in meadows. There are ten rental propert ...
Aarup
Aarup is a railway town in central Denmark with a population of 3,259 (1 January 2022),Vissenbjerg municipality to form a new Assens municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 513 km2 and a total population of 41,201 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region of Southern Denmark
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.
On the area of Tommerup municipality there is the Tommerup transmitter, whose guyed mast is the tallest construction of Denmark (excluding
Greenland
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).
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
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Väike-Maarja Parish
Väike-Maarja Parish ( et, Väike-Maarja vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 5,421 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 457.39 km².
Settlements
;Small boroughs
Kiltsi, Rakke, Simuna, ...