Giarre (unit)

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Giarre , jara or jug, was a measure of volume with the distinction between wine and oil on the Ionian Islands and the island of Sardinia .

Zante ( Zakynthos )

Paxos and Corfu

  • Wine measure 1 Giarre = 17.034 liters
  • Wine measure 1 barile = 4 giarri = 128 quartucci = 3434.8 Parisian cubic inches = 68.134 liters
  • Oil measure 1 Giarre = 17.034 liters
  • Oil measure 1 barile = 4 giarri = 24 miltri = 96 quartucci = 3434.8 Parisian cubic inches = 68.134 liters

Sardinia with capital Cagliari

  • Oil measure 1 Giarre = 16.795 liters
  • Oil measure 1 barile = 2 giarri = 8 quartans = 96 quartucci = 192 mesure = 1694 Parisian cubic inches = 33.59 liters

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.

Individual evidence

  1. August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 1, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1837, p. 540.
  2. Wilhelm Hoffmann: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers, business people, or a complete dictionary on trade, factories, manufactories, arts, etc. Business. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1848, p. 59.