Commune

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Commune can refer to various things:

• Municipality, in various European and African countries
  • Comune in Italy
  • Commune in France, the lowest level of administrative division, comprising cities, towns, and villages
• Medieval commune, a social organization of the European Middle Ages
• Commune (intentional community) or a community in which resources are shared.
  • Mir (social), a village community in czarist Russia
  • Kibbutz, an Israeli collective community
• People's commune, an administrative division of the rural area in the People's Republic of China between 1958-1984
• The Paris Commune (French Revolution), the government of Paris from 1789 to 1795, especially from 1792 to 1795
• The Paris Commune, socialist reformist state in Paris in 1871
• The Shanghai Commune, organized by Zhang Chunqiao in 1967
• The Pinnacle Commune, founded by Rastafarian preacher Leonard Howell

[edit] See also

• Communism
• Communalism
• Communitarianism