Stanitsa

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A stanitsa or stanitza ( stə-NEET-sə; Russian: станица [stɐˈnʲitsə] ), also spelled stanytsia (Ukrainian: станиця [stɐˈnɪtsʲɐ]) or stanitsa (Belarusian: станіца [staˈnʲitsa]), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.

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