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Thisted is a town in Thisted municipality of Region Nordjylland, in Denmark. It has a population of 13,079 (1 January 2014) and is located in Thy, in northwestern Jutland.The town name derives from the Germanic deity Tyr and could be translated into Tyr's Stead.Market town status was given to Thisted in the year 1500.People from ThistedJ.P. Jacobsen, Jesper Grønkjær, Bent Larsen, Yutte Stensgaard, Christen Mikkelsen Kold, and the pop duo Junior Senior and disc jockey Kato 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 to be discovered by the western medical communityEducationThere are several educational institutions in Thisted. There are three schools, Østre skole, Rolighedskolen, and Tingstrup skole. There's also a gymnasium, Higher Preparatory Examination, Higher Commercial Examination Programme and Higher Technical Examination Programme.