What is a settlement or a settlement? This is the locality or region where the inhabitants liberated from oppression of the boyars and feudal lords lived. As a rule, such people were in the public service. This concept was used in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Sloboda was already called a large rural settlement, where there were more than two churches, regular fairs were held, factory and industrial production flourished, and few were engaged in agriculture.
History reference
The first mentions of what a settlement is in the annals of the X-XI century. By the beginning of the XII century, the term was used everywhere and meant the part of the city where trade was carried out and industrial facilities were located. A little later, a settlement is already a separate village or even a group of several villages. As a rule, such a settlement was located near the fortified city, and the residents living in it were exempted from local duties. Hence the name. At the same time, citizens were not completely exempted from duties, their size and period were determined individually, depending on the place. Very often, settlements were formed on new lands, local residents were encouraged by the presence of great liberties, so that they explored new territories.
In the XVIII century, all benefits were abolished. Since that time there have been no questions about what a settlement is. At their locations, large and industrial settlements remained, where there were factories, workshops and factories.
City settlement
Until the 18th century, in the city of Sloboda they called the area where there was its own self-government. In Moscow there were several such areas:
- palace;
- treasury bills;
- lordly;
- black
- military;
- foreign, which were actually an analogue of the ghetto, where foreigners compactly lived.
There were only two in Kitai Gorod:
- patriarchal;
- singing.
There were no such areas in the Kremlin at all.
