Exeque

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Exeque was a measure of the volume of grain in the Portuguese possessions in Lower Guinea ( Portuguese Guinea ). The measure was about the same as the Portuguese fanga .

  • 1 Exeque = 4 Cazungueles = 55.3 liters (Lisbon 55.563 liters)

The fanga as a so-called dry measure was used in Portugal and Brazil .

  • (Grain deleted) 1 Fanga = 4 Alqueires
  • ( Coals in Lisbon ) 1 Fanga = 8 Alqueires (heaped)

literature

  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 6, Leipzig 1906, p. 310.
  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 211.
  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author collective: Brockhaus Konversationslexikon. Volume 6, FA Brockhaus Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna 1894, p. 464.