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Roslagen is the name of the coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden, which also constitutes the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago. Historically, it was the name for all the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, including the eastern parts of lake Mälaren, belonging to Svealand. The name was first mentioned in the year 1493 as "Rodzlagen".〔http://www.vato-sorgarden.se/filer/roden.php?select=meny12〕 Before that the area has been known as ''Roden'', which is the coastal equivalent to inland Hundreds. When the king would issue a call to leidang, the Viking Age equivalent of military conscript service, a Roden district was responsible for raising a number of ships for the leidang navy. The name comes from Roslagen word “rodslag” which in coastal Uppland is an old word for a rowing crew of warrior oarsmen.〔http://www.svetur.se/en/Roslagen/〕 Etymologically, Roden, or Roslagen, is the source of the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: ''Ruotsi'' and ''Rootsi''.〔The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text Translated by O. P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor ISBN 0-910956-34-0〕 A person from Roslagen is called "Rospigg" which means "inhabitant of Ros". Swedes from the Roslagen area, that is "the people of Ros", gave name to the Ros/Rus people and through that to the state of Russia (for further reading see Rus (name)).〔http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Russia〕 The area also gives its name to the endangered domesticated Roslag sheep, which originated from the area centuries ago. It is served by the narrow-gauge Roslagsbanan railway network from Stockholm. ==See also== *Attundaland *Fjärdhundraland *Tiundaland *Stone of Mora *Suiones 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roslagen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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