Gheriah

Gheriah is the modern name of a sea fortress in southwest India , south of Ratnagiri, in the state of Maharashtra . The old name was Vijaydurg (Hindi "victory fortress"). It was since the late 17th century the seat of the fleet of the Marathas under the Admiral Kanhoji Angre (1667-1729), who waged a pirate war against the colonial sea powers Portugal , Netherlands and Great Britain from there .

The Gheriah , also Gurrah , is also an Indian measure of length. The measure was common in Bengal .

• 1 Gheriah = 2 Angullos = 6 Jarbes = 101 ⅓ Parisian lines = about 228.58 millimeters
• 2 Gheriah = 1 skin / cubit / arm

literature

• Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 385
• Herders Konversations-Lexikon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1855, Volume 3, p. 77