Boġča

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Boġča was a Turkish unit of mass ( measure of weight).

1 Boġča = 4 Batman = 6320 Dirham (Ottoman) = 20.268 kilograms
Turkish seam load of Eastern Anatolia : 1 Aṣil yük = 8 Boġča = 32 Batman (Amider) = 6320 Dirhem (1 D. = 3.207 grams ) = 162.144 kilograms

literature

Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights: converted into the metric system. EJ Brill. Leiden / Cologne 1970 Supplementary Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 11, 36. (reprint).