1) Slovak surname 2) Type of populated place
Found on
https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/sloboda
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` and may be vaguely translated as `free settlement`. In modern Russia, the term is used to denote a type of a rural locality and is used in Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tula, and...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloboda
(from the article `Ukraine`) ...became an area of colonization by Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks fleeing Polish rule and, later, the ravages of the Ruin period. The newcomers ...
Found on
http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/109
a suburb, typically inhabited by members of a single professional group: in Moscow there was also a German sloboda where Western Europeans lived.
Found on
http://www.uleth.ca/lib/digitized_collections/ourheritage/Great_Adventures/
No exact match found.
