Bahu (unit)

Bahu , also Bouw , was a square measure in Banca , Batavia , Makassar , Semarang and Surabaya .

• 1 Bahu = 70.965 ares
• 4 Bahu = 1 Djong / jungle = 28,386 square meters

literature

• Johann E. Wappäus, Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein, Johann Hartwig Brauer, Johann Heinrich Plath: Handbook of geography and statistics for the educated classes. Volume 2, JC Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1864, p. 339.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 21.
2. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 29 .