Covid

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The Covid , also Cobido , Covado or Covit , was a measure of length and was considered a small cubit . The large cubit was the guz with the long and the short form ( guz bozar ).

The Covid was valid in East India and Canton (China) , Arabia , British Bengal and many other smaller regions. For example, in the East Indies and in the Canton of China, 1 Covid = 208 3/20 Parisian lines = 469 millimeters, among other measurements.

The measure was not uniform and had these values:

  • Amboina Island 1 Covid = 205 ¾ Paris lines = 464 millimeters
  • Bombay , Calcutta , Madras 1 Covid = 202 13/20 Paris lines = 456 millimeters; 4000 Covid = 1 Coß
  • Camboja 1 Covid = 279.7 Parisian lines = 630 millimeters
  • Canton of China 1 Covid = 10 Punt / Pont = 164 16/25 Parisian lines = 370 millimeters
  • Surat East India 1 Covid = 208.3 Parisian Lines = 469 millimeters
  • Bantam 1 Covid = 223 Parisian lines = 502.8 millimeters
  • Bengal 1 Covid = 178 4/5 Parisian lines = 403.6 millimeters
  • Cylon , Malacca 1 Covid = 208.7 Parisian lines = 470.4 millimeters
  • Malacca 1 Covid = 203.269 Paris lines = 458.54 millimeters
  • Canton of China, Beijing 1 Covid = 158 Paris lines = 356 millimeters
  • Cossimbazar (Bengal) 1 Covid = 125 1/5 Parisian lines = 282 millimeters
  • Daudnagapur (Bengal) 1 Covid = 185 1/2 Parisian lines = 419 millimeters
  • Goa (East India), Mecca (Arabia) 1 Covid = 304.1 Parisian lines = 681 millimeters
  • Gomron, Abassy (Persia) 1 Covid = 425 4/5 Parisian lines = 960 millimeters
  • Mocha / Mocha (Arabia) 1 Covid = 262.1 Parisian lines = 590.7 millimeters
  • Poudichery (East India), Queda, Siam 1 Covid = 202.7 Parisian lines = 457 millimeters
  • Mocha 1 Covid = 213.93 Parisian lines = 482.6 millimeters
  • Moluccas 1 Covid = 204.17 Paris lines = 460.58 millimeters
  • Betelfaki ( Yemen ) 1 Covid = 0.5 yard = 202.671 Paris lines = 457.19 millimeters
  • Betelfaki 1 Covid = 0.75 yards = 304.007 Paris Lines = 685.79 millimeters (iron or large Covid)

As area measure in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras was

  • 20 square Covid = 1 Chattak
  • 1 square covid = 1 49/50 Paris square feet = 0.212 centiare

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 298.
  2. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, pp. 295, 499.
  3. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 499.
  4. ↑ a b Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, pp. 69, 491.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 51.