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2. Ottoman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923), the predecessor of modern Turkey was one of the 17 signatories of the Metre Convention in 1875. For 58 years both the international and the traditional units were in use, but after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, the traditional units became obsolete.

3. Category:Ottoman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Ottoman units of measurement" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

4. Kile (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The kile (Ottoman Turkish: كيله) was an Ottoman unit of volume similar to a bushel, like other dry measures also often defined as a specific weight of a particular commodity. Its value varied widely by location, period, and commodity, from 8 to 132 oka.

5. Arshin (length) - Wikipedia

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   The arshin or arşın is an old Turkish and Russian unit of length (Ottoman Turkish: آرشين or آرشون [1]) The Turkish "market arşın" was about 27 inches (690 mm) long. [ 2 ] The masonry arşın was 75.774 cm on average (mason's arşın = 24 parmak = 240 ḫaṭṭ) [ 3 ] The usage of arşın was gradually abolished during 1931–1933 ...

6. Kadem - Wikipedia

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   Kadem (also ayak آیاق) is a defunct measurement unit used in the Ottoman Empire. Kadem means "foot" and during the last years of the Ottoman Empire 1 kadem was set to be 30.48 cm (1.000 ft) in accordance with the British unit of length. But before the reign of Ottoman Sultan Selim III (r. 1789–1807

7. Oka (mass) - Wikipedia

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   The oka, okka, or oke (Ottoman Turkish: اوقه) was an Ottoman measure of mass, equal to 400 dirhems (Ottoman drams). Its value varied, but it was standardized in the late empire as 1.2829 kilograms. [1] 'Oka' is the most usual spelling today; 'oke' was the usual contemporary English spelling; 'okka' is the modern Turkish spelling, and is ...

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9. Dunam - Wikipedia

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   A dunam (Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: دونم; Turkish: dönüm; Hebrew: דונם Yiddish: דונאם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.