Amal 

Amal is a locality and the seat of Amal Municipality in Västra Gotaland County, Sweden with nine,1/2 inhabitants in 2010. It is located on the western shore of Vänern. In 2005 Amal acquired second prize within the global opposition The International Awards for Liveable Communities also referred to as the LivCom Awards. A blues pageant has been held yearly in Amal since 1992. Amal turned into based in the seventeenth century through Queen Christina, and have become one of the now defunct Cities of Sweden on April 1, 1643, and the handiest city within the historic province of Dalsland.

Its place near the borders of the Denmark-Norway alliance made it prone to assault and it accordingly suffered over the following centuries: first in 1645, while it changed into nearly absolutely demolished, once more in 1676 and 1679; and the last time in 1788 when it became conquered through the Danes, who then held it for a short whilst.