Para (currency)

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50 para of 1965
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40 Ottoman para of Mehmed VI, 1918 AD

The para (Template:Langx; from Template:Langx, meaning 'piece')[1][2] was a term given to former currencies of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar.

In 1524, the Ottoman law code of Egypt (kanunname) referred to the Mamluk Egyptian coin medin as pare and set its value as <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+12 dirham. Since 1640 the value of para was settled relative to Ottoman currency, at 3 akçe. In the 16th and 17th centuries pare were minted in many parts of the empire, in Asia and north Africa.[3] In 1688 the Ottoman kuruş was introduced, equalling 40 para. In 1844, a kuruş was, in turn, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1100 of the newly introduced Ottoman lira.

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In Serbia, the Script error: No such module "Lang". has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 Script error: No such module "Lang". during its brief existence between 1906 and 1918. In Albania, the Script error: No such module "Lang". was used as a currency before the introduction of the lek in 1926.

In Albanian, Kurdish, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Mandaic, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian (пара) and Turkish, para or its plural Script error: No such module "Lang"., pari, pare, parale, parai, paraja or Script error: No such module "Lang". is a generic term for money.

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