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Slobozia
Sign in to saveSlobozia () is the capital city of Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 41,550 in 2021.
Key facts
- Romanian subdivision.type
- municipality
- Romanian subdivision.county
- Ialomița
- Romanian subdivision.official_name
- Slobozia
- Romanian subdivision.image_shield
- Stema.svg
- Romanian subdivision.image_skyline
- Slobozia - Catedrala episcopala.jpg
- Romanian subdivision.image_caption
- Orthodox Cathedral of Slobozia
- Romanian subdivision.image_map
- Slobozia in the Ialomița County.svg
- Romanian subdivision.map_caption
- Location in Ialomița County
- Romanian subdivision.leader_name
- Dănuț-Alexandru Potor
- Romanian subdivision.leader_term
- 2024–2028
- Romanian subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Romanian subdivision.area_total
- 126.72
- Romanian subdivision.population_total
- auto
- Romanian subdivision.postal_code
- 9200xx
- Romanian subdivision.area_code
- (+40) 02 43
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Geography
- Economy
- Culture
- Demographics
- Tourism
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
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Slobozia () is the capital city of Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 41,550 in 2021.
==Etymology== Its name is from the Romanian "slobozie", which meant a recently colonized village which was free of taxation. The word itself comes from the Slavic word "slobod" which means "free". As it is located in the middle of flat land (Bărăgan Plain), it was very vulnerable to Tatar and Ottoman incursions. To encourage peasants to settle there, they were exempted from some taxes, hence the name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slobozia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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