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{{Short description|Village on Cossack military bases}}
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A '''stanitsa''' or '''stanytsia''' ({{lang-rus|станица|p=stɐˈnʲitsə}}; {{lang-uk|станиця}}) was a historical administrative unit of a [[Cossack host]], a type of [[Cossack]] polity that existed in the [[Russian Empire]].