Slobozia (), also known as Slobodzeya (; ), is a city in the

Republic of Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised ...

under the '' de facto'' control of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It is the seat of the Slobozia District of

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. Slobozia is located in the southern part of Transnistria, south of

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. It had a population of 18,748 at the census in 1989, and 16,062 at the census in 2004. The population of the city is mostly made up of ethnic

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(46%) and

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(41%), while

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are an important minority (11%). The name of the city comes from the Romanian "slobozie", meaning "a tax-free colony (village)".

Climate

Slobozia has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...

(

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: ''Dfb'' bordering on ''Dfa'').

Notable people

* Petru Bogatu (born 1951 in Slobozia) is a Moldovan journalist and author * Vasili Tishchenko, mayor * Vladimir Ţurcan (born 1954 in Slobozia) is a Moldovan politician and member of the

Parliament of Moldova The parliament of the Republic of Moldova () is the supreme representative body of the Republic of Moldova, the only state legislative authority, being a unicameral structure composed of 101 elected MPs on lists, for a period or legislature o ...

since 2009.

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References

External links

Słobodzieja
(Slobozia) in the

Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries () is a monumental Polish gazetteer, published 1880–1902 in Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns ...

(1889) Cities and towns in Transnistria Cities and towns in Moldova Populated places on the Dniester Tiraspolsky Uyezd Slobozia District {{transnistria-stub