Volost
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Volost (; ; ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Kievan Rus', the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the Russian Empire.
==History== The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890–1907) states that the origins of the concept is unclear; whether it originally referred to an administrative subdivision or to a peasant obshchina, the term referring to a territory under a single rule.
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