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Historically it was the name of all the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea , including the eastern parts of lake Mälaren , belonging to Svealand . The name is derived from Roden , which is the coastal eqivalent to inland Hundreds . When the King would call to Leidang , the Viking Age equivalent to military conscript service, a Roden district was responsible for raising a number of ships for the leidang Navy . Etymologically Roden, or Roslagen, is the root of the , as in Kievan Rus' , Ruthenia , and Russia , is the same as in the Finnish and Estonian usage and is believed to derive from Varangian s, the people from Roslagen. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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