Djong

The Djong , also Tjony, was a Dutch-East Indian area and field measure on Java .

In the absence of own measurements, English or Dutch measurements were used, especially for length and area measurements.

• 1 Djong = 4 Bahu = 2000 square rods (Rhenish) = 283.859 ares = 2.84 hectares

literature

• G. Buchner: The most worth knowing from the measure, weight u. Coin history in tabular form with special consideration of the Bavarian. Measurement and weight system. I. Paulschen Buchdruckerei, Günzburg 1853, p. 38.
• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 96.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight, exchange, money and fund rates, etc. together with an alphabetical index of the action companies. Georg Reimer Publishing House, Berlin 1858, p. 49.
2. ↑ 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. 290.
3. ↑ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 443.