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The stadion (plural stadia, Ancient Greek: στάδιον; [1] latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet . Its exact length is unknown today; historians estimate it at between 150 m and 210 m.
2 stadia 369.9 m (404.5 yd) double pipe hippikon ἱππικόν: 4 stadia 739.7 m (808.9 yd) length of a hippodrome [5] milion μίλιον: 8 stadia 1.479 km (1,617 yd) Roman mile: dolichos [4] δόλιχος: 12 stadia 2.219 km (1.379 mi) long race parasanges, or league [6] παρασάγγης: 30 stadia 5.548 km (3.447 mi) adopted from ...
The Heptastadion was created to link Pharos Island to the mainland coast and given a name based on its length (Heptastadion is Greek for "seven stadia"— hepta meaning seven, and a stadion being a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m (590 ft)). [3] Overall it was more than three-quarters of a mile long.
Stadium at Olympia "Stadium" is the Latin form of the Greek word "stadion" (στάδιον), a measure of length equalling the length of 600 human feet. [5] As feet are of variable length the exact length of a stadion depends on the exact length adopted for 1 foot at a given place and time.
Stadiametric rangefinding, or the stadia method, is a technique of measuring distances with a telescopic instrument.The term stadia comes from a Greek unit of length Stadion (equal to 600 Greek feet, pous) which was the typical length of a sports stadium of the time.
Although the stadium was a "quintessentially Greek architectural type", [11] it was "Roman in scale" with a massive capacity of 50,000, [16] which is roughly the same as that of the Stadium of Domitian in Rome. [25] Stadia of the Classical and Hellenistic periods were smaller.
Consequently, the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia. Later, 252,000 stadia was used, probably in order to get a round number (700 stadia) for the length of one degree of latitude. This figure was ado ' pted by Hipparchus (2nd c. B.C.), Strabo (63 B.C.-A.D. 21), and Pliny the Elder (23-79), and passed on to all educated people in Europe.
1.1 Length. 1.2 Mass. 1.3 Area. 1.4 Capacity. 2 ... Traditional Greek units of measurement were standardized and used in modern Greece before and alongside the ...