Girä
The girä was a measure of length and weight for barley , wheat and millet in Tbilisi . Rice was traded with the measure of chalwar . The measure was divided into the so-called khanic measure and that of the inhabitants. The former was the heavy measure to achieve a larger amount when collecting the taxes in kind.
- State wheat : 1 Girä Gous = 10 = 25 = 250 Batman Funt (Russian ≈ 409.5 grams ) = 6.25 Pud = 102.378 kilograms
- Citizens Wheat : 1 Girä = 240 Funt (Russian) = 6 Pood = 98.283 kilograms
- State barley, millet : 1 Girä = 10 Gous = 21 Batman = 210 Funt (Russian) = 5.25 Pud = 86 kilograms
- Citizens barley, millet : 1 girä = 200 funt (Russian) = 5 pud = 81.902 kilograms
Girä was also a measure of length.
- 16 Girä = 1 arshin (khanic)
For calculating:
- 10 arsin (Russian) = 7 arsin (khanic)
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, government papers, bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1231.
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer and the Schumann brothers, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 578.