commune

A settlement of people at village or household level, usually based on the common ownership of material goods. Communes often have a tradition of self-government; this was most clearly expressed in the formation of the Paris Commune in 1871 which challenged the authority of the national government of France. During China's Great Leap Forward after 1958, 98% of the peasantry were organized into 26 000 communes.

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