Khutor or hutor (khutor;, khutir)'s usually taken to refer to a single-homestead rural settlement (farmstead) of Eastern Europe. The word originated in Ukraine, but later came to be applied to farmsteads in Russia and Kazakhstan. Khutors were originally founded as a result of exploration of new lands by Cossacks. In the Cossack-settled regions of Ukraine, Don and Kuban the word khutor was used to describe new settlements (notwithstanding the actual number of homesteads therein) which had detache… (More on Khutor)