stanitsa
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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.
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- In the Russian Empire
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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".
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