Dam (unit)

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Dam was a measure of length in Annam , a region in East Asia . Today the greater part of Annam belongs to Vietnam . This distance measure also applied in Cambodia .

1 Dam = 2 Li = 890.38 meters
5 Dam = 1 League

literature

Meyers: Large conversation lexicon. Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 432.
R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting methods and time sizes. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 60.