Stanitsa: Difference between revisions

The stanitsa was first an administrative unit in the 18th century.<ref name=eou/> In the late 18th century, when the Cossack peoples largely lost their autonomy within the empire, they still kept self-governance at the level of the stanitsa.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kenez |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEtx7cPnIGwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=stanitsa&hl=en |title=Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army |date=1971-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01709-2 |pages=37–38 |language=en|quote=In the late eighteenth century the Cossacks lost their former autonomy. [...] However the Cossacks retained self-government on the village (''stanitsa'') level.}}</ref> Each stanitsa was still allowed to elect its own assembly.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Cossack |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cossack |date=2023-12-05 |language=en}}</ref>