SloboziaSlobozia (Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

; , , Slobodzeya) is a city in the Republic of Moldova which is the seat of the Slobozia sub-district of Transnistria

Transnistria

Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

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Slobozia is located at 46°44′N 29°42′E, in the southern part of Transnistria, south of Tiraspol

Tiraspol

Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River...

. It had a population of 18,748 at the census in 1989, and ca. 12,300 at the census in 2004. The population of the city is mostly made up of ethnic Moldavians

Moldovans

Moldovans or Moldavians are the largest population group of Moldova...

, while Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 and Ukrainians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 are important minorities.

The name of the city comes from the Romanian "slobozie", meaning "a tax-free colony (village)". http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=slobozie

External links

Słobodzieja (Slobozia) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1889)

• Slobozya info