Fanga
The fanga was a Portuguese grain measure .
The dimensions in Porto and Lisbon were about 1 to 1.2626. In practice, 79 ¼ per 100 fish were counted in Lisbon. On the Azores island of São Miguel, for example, 100 catches were set against 86,556 in Lisbon and against 68,594 in Porto. The 100 fangas were 47.92 hectoliters . A comparable measure of grain is the exeque .
Lisbon
- 1 fanga = 55.363 liters (54.036 liters = 2724.09 Parisian cubic inches )
- 15 fanga = 1 moyo
postage
- 1 Fanga = 4 Alqueires = 8 Quartas = 16 Oitatas = 32 Meios Oitatas = 69.86 liters
literature
- Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Publishing house Teubner, Leipzig 1855, p. 133
- Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ..., Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851
Individual proof
- ↑ Georg Thomas Flügel: Course slip continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Editor LF Huber, Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 159