Posad

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A posad (Russian and Ukrainian: посад, Belarusian: пасад, romanized: pasad) was a type of settlement in East Slavic lands between the 9th to 15th centuries, it was often surrounded by ramparts and a moat, adjoining a town or a kremlin, but outside of it, or adjoining a monastery.

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