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Arne Solli

Norwegian general (1938-2017)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ4794671 ↗
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Arne Solli (6 April 1938 – 20 September 2017) was a Norwegian Army general who served as Chief of Defence of Norway (Forsvarssjef) from 31 October 1994 until 30 April 1999.

In 1995 he was awarded the title of Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

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“Arne Solli” enters the record as norwegian general (1938-2017). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arne, Solli and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 2017, 1994, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-04-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Arne, Solli and Norwegian.
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“Arne Solli” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Arne, Solli and Norwegian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4794671. VIAF identifies the subject as 4108148997685859870000. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 2017, 1994 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arne Solli” 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.