Supernumerary town
Supernumerary town (Russian: Заштатный город, romanized: zashtatny gorod; безуездный город, bezuyezdny gorod, 'county-less city', ") was a type of a city in the Russian Empire which was not an administrative center of any territory.[1][2]
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During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, when an uezd was disbanded, its administratice centre typically lost its status as a city, with the corresponding loss of city privileges of its inhabitants. To bypass this, a 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 centres constituted 8 percent of cities, uezd cities counted 71 percent, and supernumerary towns counted 21 percent.[5]
Over time the term zashtatny gorod has acquired the meaning of an insignificant/backwater city.
See also
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). Saint Petersburg University (11): 35–44.
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