Seltso (rural locality type)

Seltso (Russian: сельцо́; Polish: siołko) was a type of rural locality in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire.

For the list of modern inhabited localities in Russia called "Seltso", see Seltso (inhabited locality).

In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the term referred to a small standalone khutor (hamlet), which often served as a unit into which a volost was subdivided.[1] On the territory of Russia proper, this type of settlement was most common in Smolensk lands.[1] The population of a typical seltso tended to be quite small, often limited to one or several families, or sometimes even just one person.[1]

In the later periods, the term was used to refer to a peasant settlement without a church around a landowner's estate.[1]

See also

References
  1. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Entry on "seltso" (in Russian)


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