The phrase "autonomous village" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a village that operates independently or has self-governing capabilities, often in a political or administrative context.
Example: "The autonomous village was able to make its own decisions regarding local governance and resource management."
Alternatives: "self-governing community" or "independent settlement".
The primary political unit was the autonomous village composed of a band of related families.
The political structure of the Chokwe seems to range from tributary chiefdoms to autonomous village groups.
This autonomous village control is linked with the central government through the district governors, who are appointed by the governor.
Early written reports describe the political organization of the Southeast as including independent villages, autonomous village clusters, and "tribelets," independent polities that recognized cultural connections with the other groups or polities within the same tribe.
The Zapatista National Liberation Army, for its part, has been forming "autonomous" village administrations in Chiapas since 1994, a few months after the rebels staged a brief uprising in the name of greater justice for Mexican Indians.
In, but not part of, Copenhagen, Christiania is the closest the modern world has to an autonomous village-size utopian community, a place where dogs run wild and dreamers – Graham's parents, for example – dream new ways of life.
The Modoc and Klamath were organized into relatively autonomous villages, each with its own leaders, shamans, and medicine men.
They lived in relatively autonomous villages; like other upland peoples in the area, they sometimes organized themselves into temporary confederations under a chief called a ramang.
Because more dry ground is available to the eastern (Ethiopian) Anywa resulting in more closely connected villages they have a wider political organization than that afforded by the autonomous villages of the western Anywa.
William Polk, in his "open letter" to President Obama, compared Afghanistan to "a rocky hill sliced by gullies and covered by 20,000 Ping-Pong balls" each representing an "autonomous village-state," and urged him not to escalate the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world.
