Posad 801118 214602888 2008-05-24T10:16:38Z Geanixx 3737267 Added [[no:Posad]] {{unreferenced|date=November 2007}} A '''posad''' ({{lang-ru|посад}}) was a [[town|settlement]], often surrounded by [[bulwark]]s and a [[moat]], by a town or a [[kremlin]], but outside the town/kremlin, or by a [[monastery]] in the 10th to 15th centuries. Usually it was inhabited by craftsmen and merchants, known as [[posadskiye lyudi]] (posad people). In the [[Russian Empire]] a posad was a small semi-urban settlement. A number of posads evolved into towns. Those by a kremlin often gave rise to local [[toponym]]s, such as ''Nagorny Posad'' (Uphill Settlement), and ''Kazanski Posad'' for the historical center of [[Kazan]]. Those by a monastery often gave rise to cities named after the monastery, e.g., [[Sergiev Posad]] is named after the nearby [[Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra]]. See also [[Pavlovsky Posad]], [[Mariinsky Posad]] and [[Gavrilov Posad]]. {{East-Slavic-history-stub}} [[Category:Human habitats]] [[be:Пасад]] [[fr:Posad]] [[hr:Posad]] [[nl:Posad]] [[no:Posad]] [[ru:Посад]] [[uk:Посад]]