Supernumerary town
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Supernumerary town (Template:Lang-ru, Template:Lang-ru, "uyezdless town") was a type of a town in the Russian Empire which was not an administrative center of any territory.[1][2][better source needed]
During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, when an uyezd was disbanded, its center typically lost the town status, with the corresponding loss of town privileges of its inhabitants. To prevent this, the new category of urban settlements was introduced.[3]
The 1796 reform of the administrative division by Emperor Paul I of Russia decreased the number of uyezds and their centers were reclassified as supernumerary towns. The reform established the population number as a criterion for a supernumerary town.[4]
In the second half of the 19th century the governorate centers constituted 8% of towns, uyezd towns counted 71% and supernumerary towns counted 21%.[5]
Over time the term "zashtatny gorod" has acquired the meaning of "insignificant/backwater town".
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References
- ^ . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
- ^ Elias Heifetz, The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919, 1921 p. 276
- ^ Белов, Алексей Викторович (2012). "Сеть городов и городских поселений Российской империи при Павле I" [Network of cities and urban settlements of the Russian Empire under Paul I]. Труды Исторического факультета Санкт-Петербургского университета (in Russian) (11). Saint Petersburg University: 35–44.
- ^ Циберт В. (2003). "Становлення органів самоврядування міст Південної України в останній чверті XVIII - середині XIX століття" [Formation of self-governing bodies in the cities of Southern Ukraine from the last quarter of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century] (PDF). Наукові праці історичного факультету Запорізького державного університету (in Ukrainian) (XVI). Zaporizhia: Prosvita Publ. [Просвіта]: 31–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2013.
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