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Sweden, large-scale tar production started around 1700. Swedish pine tar was often called "Stockholm tar" since, for many years, a single company held a royal monopoly on its export out of Stockholm, Sweden. It was also known as "Archangel Tar". Stockholm tar became synonymous with top-quality tar. Tar production peaked around the mid-1850s and gradually declined thereafter, largely due to new shipbuilding materials reducing

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