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Commune

Commune can refer to various things:

• commune (subnational entity) of various European and African countries
• Commune in France, comprises cities, towns, and villages
• medieval commune, a social organization of the European Middle Ages
• Mir (social), a village community in czarist Russia
• A kibbutz, an Israeli collective community
• commune (intentional community)
• People's commune, an administrative division of China
• 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

See also

• Communism
• Communalism
• Communitarianism

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