Slobodka
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Slobodka Slabodka (Belarusian
Belarusian language
The Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...

), Slobidka (Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

) is a diminutive from "sloboda
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"....

", a kind of settlement. The word may refer to one of the following:
  • Slabodka, Belarus
  • Vilijampolė
    Vilijampole
    Vilijampolė is an elderate in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, located on the right bank of the Neris River and the Nemunas River, near their confluence. The elderate covers 1,720 hectares and houses about 32,000 people....

    , neighborhood of Kaunas, Lithuania, known before World War II as Slabodka
  • Slabodka yeshiva
    Slabodka yeshiva
    Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, and originally as Slabodka Yeshiva, is known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high=level study of the Talmud. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno , now...

     in Vilijampolė
  • Slobodka, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
  • Slobodka, Orenburg Oblast, Russia
  • Slobidka, Ukraine
  • Słobódka (disambiguation), the name of several places in Poland
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