Bachel

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Bachel was a Greek measure of volume and as fruit size in Athens , Patras and other areas on the peninsula Morea as a measure of grain spread.

The larger size was the Staro with 2 2/5 bachelors, but also with 3 bachelors. In the old system the staro was different. The 2 2/5. or 3rd part of 82.1 liters gives a range of 34.21 to 27.37 liters for 1 bachelors.

Individual evidence

  1. M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables . Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 203.
  2. Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete handbook of coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world ... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 326. ( digitized version )
  3. M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 14.