Stremma
Template:Short description The stremma (pl. stremmata; Template:Langx, strémma) is unit of land area used mainly in Greece and Cyprus, equal to 1,000 square metres or approximately ¼ acre.
History
The ancient Greek equivalent was the square plethron, which served as the Greeks' form of the acre. It was originally defined as the area plowed by a team of oxen in a day[1] but was nominally standardized as the area enclosed by a square 100 Greek feet (pous) to a side. It was the size of a Greek wrestling square.
The Byzantine or Morean stremma continued to vary depending on the period and the quality of the land, but usually enclosed an area between Script error: No such module "convert"..[2] It was originally also known as the "plethron" but this was eventually replaced by "stremma", derived from the verb for "turning" the ground with a Byzantine plow.[3]
The Ottoman stremma, often called the Turkish stremma, is the Greek (and occasionally English) name for the dunam, which in turn is probably derived from the Byzantine unit.[4] Again, this varied by region: some values include Script error: No such module "convert".,[5] and 1,600 m2.[6]
Conversions
One modern stremma is equivalent to:
Metric
- 1,000 square metres
- 0.1 hectares
- 0.001 square kilometres
Imperial
- 10,763.9 square feet
- 0.247 105 38 acres
- 0.000 386 102 square miles
See also
- 1 E3 m² for further comparisons
- Byzantine units
- Conversion of units
- Greek units
- Metric units
Bibliography
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- ↑ Siriol Davis, "Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino", Hesperia, Winter, 2004 [1]
- ↑ Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής (Dictionary of Modern Greek), Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1998. Template:ISBN
- ↑ V.L. Ménage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century, Berkeley, 1971; in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 36:3 (1973), pp. 659-661. at JSTOR (subscription required); see also Erich Schilbach, Byzantinische Metrologie.
- ↑ The Dictionary of Modern Greek Λεξικό, 1998
- ↑ Costas Lapavitsas, Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
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