administrative center was a castle. Slottslän were divided into municipalities and administrators. The term slottslän can be translated as "castle fief"...

former administrative or cultural areas of Finland, with origins from the slottslän (linnalääni) of the Middle Ages. The historical provinces ceased to be...

Nöteborg (now Shlisselburg) became the centres of the four Ingrian counties (slottslän), and consisted of citadels, in the vicinity of which were small boroughs...

centers in Finland. The government area surrounding a castle was called a slottslän (linnalääni in Finnish). Sweden was an electoral kingdom in medieval times...

centre of the three Slottslänen - "castle fiefs, castle counties", sg. Slottslän - the other two being the castle of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) in Finland Proper...

but administratively a part of the Kumogård castle fief (linnalääni/slottslän), i.e. Satakunta. In the 15th century, the bishop of Turku had five leasehold...

mentioned in 1378 as Rasaborge. It acted as the center of the Raseborg slottslän (Finnish: linnalääni) covering western Uusimaa and some parts of Finland...

after which they were officially annexed to the Espoo parish and the slottslän of Raseborg. After the Second Crusade to Finland, settlers from Sweden...

Finnish, and became the center of the north-Ingrian Nöteborg county (slottslän). During that time very little was done to maintain the fortress in good...

Kokemäenjoki. Kokemäki Castle was the administrative centre of Kokemäenkartano slottslän. Its function was similar to that of the castles of Turku, Häme and Vyborg...

in 1324. While part of the Kingdom of Sweden, the administrative area (slottslän) of Kumogård (Kokemäenkartano) was created in 1331. Kokemäki served as...