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Åge Tovan

Norwegian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4573666 ↗
Source-derived summary

Åge Edvin Tovan (born 21 September 1947 in Kristiansund) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the terms 1993–1997, 1993–1997 and 2001–2005.

Tovan served as mayor for the municipality of Lørenskog between 2003 and 2015. Ragnhild Bergheim, former deputy mayor and also from the Labour Party, took over as mayor when Åge Tovan resigned.

In his younger days Tovan played football for Clausenengen FK, and was active in sport wrestling and athletics.

References

"Åge Tovan" (in Norwegian). Storting.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Åge Tovan” as norwegian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1993, 1997, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-09-21. The account is most persuasive where Tovan, Norwegian and footballer can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as norwegian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4573666. VIAF identifies the subject as 294308819. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1993, 1997 and 2001.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Åge Tovan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.