Stanitsa (pronounced stah-nee-tsah; )'s a village inside a Cossack host (voisko) (kazachye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Army"). Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts. Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire. Much of the land was held in common by the stanitsa, subject to annual allocation to Cossack families by the Ataman, the appointed leader of the commun… (More on Stanitsa)