{{Short description|Village on Cossack military bases}}
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A '''stanitsa''' or '''stanytsia''' ({{lang-rusru|станица}}, {{IPA-ru|p=stɐˈnʲitsə|pron}};) or '''stanytsia''' ({{lang-uk|станиця}}) was a historical administrative unit of a [[Cossack host]], a type of [[Cossack]] polity that existed in the [[Russian Empire]].
==Etymology==
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The most populous stanitsasstanitsa in modern Russia areis [[VladikavkazKanevskaya]]<!--Thein sourceKrasnodar refersKrai to(44,800 itpeople asin 2005). "Ordzhonikidze"Formerly, the formermost namepopulous -->stanitsa inwas NorthOrdzhonikidzevskaya Ossetia–Alaniain Ingushetia (7561,000598 people in 2010), and [[Kanevskaya]]but in Krasnodar2016 Kraiit (44,800was peoplereorganized ininto 2005)the town [[Sunzha]].<ref name=hist/> The town [[Stanytsia Luhanska]] in [[Ukraine]], originally founded by Cossacks, still has ''stanytsia'' in its name.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Story of a city: Stanytsia Luhanska |url=https://www.helsinki.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Web_Zvit_St_Luganska_A4_Engl2.pdf}}</ref>
