Destre

The Destre was a Spanish measure of length and was used in Mallorca . With the prefix square it was a field and area measure.

• Length: 1 Destre mallorquin = 1868 Parisian lines = 4.214 meters
• Area: 1 square Destre / Area Destre / Destre superficial / Destres cuadrados = 17.7578 square meters
  • 400 destres cuadrados = 1 cuarterada

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, measure and weight book: the money, measure and exchange system, the courses, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and more important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 463.
• Richard Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting methods and time values ​​of all countries in the world. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 65. (Reprint Verlag Рипол Классик ISBN 978-1-14697-121-8 )
• Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 91, 332.