Velinga Parish (Swedish: Velinga socken) in Tidaholm Municipality, Västra Götaland County, is a rural parish in a sparsely populated rural area of 17.8 mi2 (46.11 km2) in Sweden.
Velinga is notable for its archaeological remains, which include runestones from the Viking Age. Artefacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages have also been found there, most notably at the Lövrudan Archaeological Site, which contains several Bronze and Iron Age stone circles, and cairns, or Bronze Age burial mounds. The oldest parts of the Romanesque Velinga Church date back to the 1100s, and the medieval Ettaks Church ruins (Ettaks kyrkoruin), which once belonged to a royal estate, were the site of a major archeological excavation in 1970, documented by the Swedish National Heritage Board.
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