Guerz

Guerz was a Persian measure of length. The Persian large cubit was used under the names Guese, Gueza, Gueze or Guerz . In addition, there was the royal and the common. All were different in length and ranged from

• 1 guerz = 436 Paris lines = 0.983 meters in Bender-Abassi (Gomron) or
• 1 Guerz = 421.5 Paris lines = 0.95 meters in Ispahan and Tauris bis

The royal gueze or guers was

• 1 Guers = 419 4/5 Paris lines = 0.946 meters

The usual gueze for the retail trade corresponded

• 1 gueze = 279 9/10 Paris lines = 0.63 meters

The ratio of the latter two measures was: ordinary = ⅔ royal.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 118.

Web links

• Information at zeno.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . Volume 2. Leipzig 1905, p. 624.
2. ^ Ladies Conversation Lexicon. Volume 5, 1835, p. 494.