The Cossacks also maintained a colony on the Russian frontier called Sloboda Ukraine. The Russian monarchs started to encourage the settlement of the region by the Cossacks. Apart from the Cossacks, the settlers included peasants and townspeople from Right and Left-bank Ukraine. The name Sloboda Ukraine derives from the word sloboda, a Slavic term meaning "freedom" (or "liberty)", and also the name of a type of settlement. The Tsar would free the settlers of a sloboda from the obligation of paying taxes and fees for a certain period of time, which proved very enticing for settlers. It became increasingly organized according to Cossack military custom, similar to that of the Zaporozhian Host and the Hetmanate. The relocated cossacks became known as Sloboda Cossacks. The territory of historic Sloboda Ukraine corresponds to the territory of the present-day Ukrainian oblast (province) of Kharkiv (in its entirety), and parts of the Sumy, Donetsk, and Luhansk Oblasts, as well as parts of the Belgorod, Kursk, and Voronezh Oblasts of Russia.
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