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  2. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A league is a unit of length. It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation. Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several ...

  3. Kos (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The kos (Hindi: कोस), also spelled coss, koss, kosh, koh(in Punjabi), krosh, and krosha, is a unit of measurement which is derived from a Sanskrit term, क्रोश krośa, which means a 'call', as the unit was supposed to represent the distance at which another human could be heard.

  4. Yojana - Wikipedia

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    As per Manusmriti, one trasareṇu is the size of the smallest moving speck of dust visible to naked eye. [7] [8] [a] 8 trasarenu 1 bālāgra (tip of a hair strand) 8 bālāgra 1 likhsha (size of a nit) [9] [note 3] 8 liksha 1 yūka (size of a louse) [10] 8 yūka 1 yava (width of barley grain of medium size) [11] 8 yava 1 aṅgula (finger-breadth)

  5. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    This league is 2200 toises or 60 arpents. It was created in 1737. lieue de 25 au degré ~13 692 4.448 km 2.764 miles Linked to the circumference of the Earth, with 25 lieues making up one degree of a great circle. (Compare the international nautical mile, of which 60 make one degree; one lieue therefore equaling 2

  6. Furlong - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman system, there were 625 feet to the stadium, eight stadia to the mile, and 1½ miles to the league. A league was considered to be the distance a man could walk in one hour, and the mile (from mille, meaning "thousand") consisted of 1,000 passus (paces, five feet, or double-step).

  7. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In Hindi ½ Seer = Adha (½) Seer, or Adher 1 Ser = 2 Adher = 4 Pav = 16 Chattank = 80 Tola = 933.1 grams 1 Savaser = 1 Ser + 1 Pav (1¼ Seer) 1 Savaser weighed 100 Imperial rupees In Hindi 1¼ Seer = Sava (1¼) Seer, or Savaser 1 Dhaser = 2 Savaser = 2½ Seer In Hindi 2½ Seer = Dhai (2½) Seer, or Dhaser 1 Paseri = 2 Adisari = 5 Seer

  8. Parasang - Wikipedia

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    The parasang, also known as a farsakh (from Arabic), is a historical Iranian unit of walking distance, the length of which varied according to terrain and speed of travel. The European equivalent is the league. In modern terms the distance is about 3 or 3½ miles (6 km).

  9. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic ...