Also 7 staniza. [Russian станица, dim. of станъ station, district.] A Cossack community or township.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 420. There went away a Staniza or Caravan, of about 200. persons.
1799. [see SOTNIK].
1837. Penny Cycl., VIII. 79/2. Each [Cossack] regiment is drawn from one or more stanitzas or districts.
1895. Daily News, 13 June, 5/4. It were well, too, that a large number of Cossack stanitzas should be intermingled with the new colonists.
