Carro (unit)

The Carro , even Caro , was an Italian measure of volume for liquids and cereals , a hay - Unit of Mass , but also a square measure. It was a measure with a regionally dependent size.

Wine measure

The measure was intended not only for wine but also for brandy .

Alessandria and Turin 1 carro (wine) = 10 brente = 60 rubbi = 360 pintes = 720 bocali = 1400 quartini = 28,440 Parisian cubic inches = 563 3/5 liters
Kingdom of Naples (wine and brandy) 1 Carro = 2 Botti = 24 Barili = 1440 Caraffe = 52,777 ⅔ Parisian cubic inches = 1045 ⅞ liters

Grain measure

Kingdom of Naples 1 carro = 36 tomoli = 864 measure = 100,241.25 Parisian cubic inches = 1986 3/5 liters
Manfredonia 1 Carro = 94,730 Parisian cubic inches = 1877.25 liters

Area measure

The carro was a field measure in the province of Apulia

1 Carro = 20 Vesure = 120 Catane = 1200 square Passi = 8400 Palmi = 582.75 square meters

Hay weight

Carro, which was Fuder, a hay weight in Piedmont with Turin as the capital and in the Kingdom of Sardinia with the accompanying dimensional chain

1 carro = 60 rubbi = 1500 libbre / pound = 553.267 kilograms

In addition, there was the hay measure Tesa cuba according to volume.

1 Tesa cuba = 5.0414 cubic meters

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 39
Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 42 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1297.
↑ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1298.

[1] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1297.

[2] Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1298.