Catena (unit)

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The catena (German: chain, measuring chain) was an Italian measure of length and also a measure of area. It was used to measure the fields and was used in Naples as a measure of length:

  • 1 catena = 5 passions

The Passo can be translated with step and was 1.85185 meters = 820.918 Parisian lines .

In Palermo they shared:

  • 1 corda / string = 4 catenes
  • 1 catena = 4 cans
  • 1 canna = 8 palmi

In Rome, despite the introduction of the metric system in 1848, the old measurements continued to apply, namely here:

  • 1 catena = 10 stajuoli = 5 ¾ Canna architettonica

In the Kingdom of Naples it was also a yardstick and it was:

  • 1 catena = 46 1/12 Parisian square rods
  • 6 catenes = 1 Vesura
  • 1 caro = 100 catenes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 718.
  2. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 790.
  3. ^ Association of practical merchants: Latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 2. Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 303.
  4. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 379.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 40.