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[[Image:Nemetskaya.jpg|thumb|250px|left|[[German Sloboda]] in 17th-century [[Moscow]].]]
'''Sloboda''' was a kind of settlement in the history of [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]]. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for "[[Freedom (philosophy)|freedom]]" and may be vaguely translated as "free settlement". The status of "sloboda" varied over the time and territory. Initially the settlers of a ''sloboda'' were freed from various taxes and levies for various reasons, hence the name. Many ''slobodas'' were settled in newly colonized lands, particularly, by [[Cossacks]], freedom from taxes being an incentive for colonization. Some ''slobodas'' were parts of a city.
By the first half of the 18th century this privilege was abolished, and ''slobodas'' became ordinary [[village]]s, ''[[shtetl]]s'', [[townlet (p.g.t.)|townlet]]s, suburbs.
The term is preserved in names of various settlements and city quarters. Some settlements were named just thus: "Sloboda", "Slobodka" (diminutive form),
"Slabodka", "Slobidka" ([[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]).
Similar settlements existed in [[Wallachia]] and [[Moldavia]], under the name ''[[slobozie]]/[[slobozia]]''.
==See also==
*[[Sloboda Ukraine]]
*[[Sloboda Tatars]] (слободские татары)
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