Thisted is a town in Thisted municipality

Thisted municipality

Thisted municipality is a municipality in North Denmark Region, Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,072 km², and has a total population of 45,549 . Its mayor is Erik Hove Olesen, a member of the Social Democrats...

 of Region Nordjylland

Region Nordjylland

North Denmark Region or North Jutland Region is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger...

, in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It has a population of 13,005 (1 January 2011) and is located in Thy

Thy (district)

Thy is a traditional district in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. It is situated north of the Limfjord, facing the North Sea and Skagerrak, and has a population of around 50,000. The main towns of Thy are Thisted, Hanstholm and Hurup....

, in northwestern Jutland

Jutland

Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

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The town name derives from the Germanic

Germanic paganism

Germanic paganism refers to the theology and religious practices of the Germanic peoples of north-western Europe from the Iron Age until their Christianization during the Medieval period...

 deity Tyr and could be translated into Tyr's Stead.

Market town status was given to Thisted in the year 1500.

People from Thisted

disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 Kato, Thomas Kato Vittrup, J.P. Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen" and pronounced "I. P. Jacobsen"...

, Jesper Grønkjær

Jesper Grønkjær

Jesper Grønkjær is a former Danish professional football player. A pacey winger, he was able to play on the right or left wing and as a second striker. Grønkjær played a total 400 league games for a number of European clubs, most notably winning the 1999 Dutch Cup with Ajax Amsterdam and playing...

, Yutte Stensgaard

Yutte Stensgaard

Yutte Stensgaard is a Danish actress born in Thisted, Jutland, Denmark, best known for her starring role in Hammer's Lust for a Vampire.-Career:...

, Christian Kold, and the pop duo Junior Senior

Junior Senior

Junior Senior was a pop musical duo from Denmark. The duo consisted of Jesper "Junior" Mortensen and Jeppe "Senior" Laursen ....

 are some notable people from Thisted. Grethe Rask, a medical doctor who worked in Africa in the 1970s is also from Thisted. Working in primitive conditions, Rask was the first known confirmed case of AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 to be discovered by the western medical community
Bent Larsen

Bent Larsen

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Education

There are several educational institutions in Thisted. There are three schools, Østre skole, Rolighedskolen, and Tingstrup skole. There's also a gymnasium

Gymnasium (Denmark)

The Danish Gymnasium offers a 3-year general academically-oriented upper secondary programme which builds on the 9th-10th form of the Folkeskole and leads to the upper secondary school exit examination...

, Higher Preparatory Examination, Higher Commercial Examination Programme

Higher Commercial Examination Programme

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 and Higher Technical Examination Programme.

Soccer

Thisted has a football team Thisted FC

Thisted FC

Thisted FC is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division West following their relegation from the Danish 1st Division at the end of the 2009-10 season. They play at Sparekassen Thy Arena in Thisted, West Jutland, which has a capacity of 3,000.-Current squad:-External links:...

 in the Danish 2nd Division West

Danish 2nd Division West

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Brewery

Thisted is also home of the Brewery Thisted Bryghus

Thisted Bryghus

Thisted Bryghus is a small Danish brewery located in the town of Thisted in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. The brewery supplies the locals with typical Danish pilsner beer, but has recently risen to some national and international renown for beers like Porse Guld and Limfjords-Porter, a Baltic...

 known for its high quality organic beer.

Burial mound

Langdos, the largest bronze age

Bronze Age

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 burial mound

Tumulus

A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, Hügelgrab or kurgans, and can be found throughout much of the world. A tumulus composed largely or entirely of stones is usually referred to as a cairn...

 in Denmark, is located in Thisted. The burial mound is 175 meters long and was built between 1800 and 1000 BC.

Thisted Church

Thisted features a church Gothic-style

Gothic architecture

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 church, the exterior of which contains a stone with Runic inscriptions

Runic alphabet

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