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1-lira note dated 1875 but not issued until 1880; it contains text in Persian, Turkish, French, Greek, Armenian and Arabic Lira of Mehmed V, 1911. The pound or lira (sign: LT; Ottoman Turkish: ليرا, romanized: līrā; French: livre turque; Greek: οθωμανική λίρα, romanized: othomanikí líra; Armenian: Օսմանյան լիրա, romanized: Osmanyan lira; Arabic: ليرة ...
In 1844, a kuruş was, in turn, 1 ⁄ 100 of the newly introduced Ottoman lira. The modern Turkish lira is only divided into kuruş. In Serbia, the para has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 pare during its brief existence between 1906 and 1918. In Albania, the para was used as ...
Neapolitan lira – Naples (Kingdom of Joachim Murat) Ottoman Turkish lira – Ottoman Empire; Papal States lira – Papal States; Parman lira – Parma; Sammarinese lira – San Marino; Sardinian lira – Sardinia; Tripolitanian lira (ليرة) – Tripolitania; Turkish lira – Turkey, Northern Cyprus; Turkish new lira – Turkey, Northern ...
In 1844, the Turkish gold lira was introduced as the new standard denomination. It was divided into 100 silver kuruş and the kuruş continued to circulate until the 1970s. Kuruş eventually became obsolete due to the chronic inflation in Turkey in the late 1970s. A currency reform on 1 January 2005 provided its return as 1 ⁄ 100 of the new lira.
Lira is the name of several currency units. It is the current currency of Turkey and also the local name of the currencies of Lebanon and of Syria.It is also the name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel.
The E-9 banknotes refer to the currency as "Turkish lira" rather than "new Turkish lira" and include a new ₺200 denomination. [60] The new banknotes have different sizes to prevent forgery. [ 61 ] The main specificity of this new series is that each denomination depicts a famous Turkish personality, rather than geographical sites and ...
When Albania emerged from the Ottoman Empire as an independent nation in 1912, coins of the Latin Monetary Union from France, Italy, Greece, and Austria-Hungary began to circulate in place of the Ottoman Lira. Albania did not however mint its own coins, or issue its own paper money until it adopted an independent monetary system in 1925. [10]
Northern Cyprus does not have its own currency and has adopted the Turkish lira. Similarly, South Ossetia uses the Russian ruble. Therefore, 27 currencies are used in Europe: Albanian lek; Armenian dram; Azerbaijani manat; Belarusian ruble; Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark; Bulgarian lev; Czech koruna; Danish krone; Euro; Georgian lari ...