Sollia is a village in
Stor-Elvdal Municipality in
Innlandet
Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The n ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located just up the hill from the Setninga river, about northwest of the town of
Koppang
is a village in Stor-Elvdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Glomma in the Østerdalen valley. The Rørosbanen railway and the Norwegian National Road 3 both run through the village. The railway s ...
and about north of the village of
Ringebu.
Sollia Church is located in the long, narrow village. The County Road 219 runs through the small village. Historically, this village was the
administrative centre
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, L ...
of the old
Sollia Municipality.
Name
The first element is ''sol'' which means "the Sun" and the last element is the finite form of ''li'' which means "hillside". Thus, the name means "the sunny hillside".
References
Stor-Elvdal
Villages in Innlandet
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