FALUN, a town of Sweden, capital of the district (lain) of Kopparberg, 153 m.
Falun has also railway rolling-stock factories.
The so-called "Gothenburg System" of municipal control over the sale of spirits was actually devised at Falun as early as 1850.
OSCAR JOSEF ALIN (1846-1900), Swedish historian and politician, was born at Falun on the 22nd of December 1846.
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