stanitsa

Also known as stanytsia

A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanytsia ( ) or stanitsa ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.

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Etymology
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In the Russian Empire
In Italy
Destruction
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A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanytsia ( ) or stanitsa ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.

==Etymology== The Russian word is the diminutive of the word (), which means "station" or "police district". It is distantly related to the Sanskrit word (), which means "station", "locality", or "district".