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Halmstads Bollklubb, also known simply as Halmstad or (especially locally) HBK, is a Swedish football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland, Sweden. The club, formed 7 February 1914 and approved membership in Riksidrottsförundet on 6 March 1914, competes in the second Swedish league, Superettan, and has won 4 national championship titles and 1 national cup title. HBK is a member controlled club and does not have a single owner.
The club gained some European recognition in 1995, when they defeated the successful Italian club Parma A.C. 3–0 at Gamla Ullevi (in Göteborg) in the first of two matches in the Cup Winners' Cup. However, their second encounter, in Parma, ended with a crushing 0–4 defeat, eliminating them from the tournament.
History
In the beginning
In 1913 a group of youngsters, who called themselves Viking, wishing to create a more serious organization, met at Hotel Lugnet and decided to create an organization. They gave their new organization the name Halmstads Bollklubb and chose Axel Winberg as the club's first chairman. They also applied for membership in the Riksidrottsförbundet, or the Swedish Sports Confederation.
Halmstad [ˈhalmsta] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The city had a population of 62,797 in 2012, out of a municipal total of over 90,000 (18th most populous - 2012). Halmstad is Sweden's 20th-largest city by population and located about midway between Gothenburg (the second most populous) and Malmö (the third).
History
Halmstad, at the time part of the Kingdom of Denmark, received its first city charter in 1307, and the city celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2007. The oldest remains of that first town are to be found at "Övraby" upstream on Nissan, just south of and quite close to the present day regiment buildings. The remains of the church can still be seen today between a defunct brick industry and a former landfill.
In the 1320s the town moved to the present day town centre. At this time there were two monasteries in the town and during the 15th century the St. Nikolai church was built. Halland was the object of numerous battles, sieges and occupations by Swedish troops.
Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas) is the fifth album by Shining. It was released by Osmose Productions on April 16, 2007. A black LP edition was released and limited to 500 copies.
Several lines by Christina Ricci from the movie Prozac Nation were sampled in this album. Track 5 is an arrangement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".
Track 1 starts with the beginning verses of "Antigonish", an 1889 poem by William Hughes Mearns: