Kilo (unit)
The kilo (also kilot, kisloz or quillot) was a measure of volume and should not be confused with the prefix for SI units kilo- .
It was used as a so-called fruit measure in Constantinople, today's Istanbul .
Introduced as a Turkish measure in 1841, it replaced all different kilos of the same name. It was:
The kilo of Smirna, today Izmir , was 52.9 liters and was equal to 1.5 kilos in Constantinople.
In Athens it was “the” kilo with 100 liters, and according to the old measure that was 3.0157 kilos. It was also known as the royal kilo. When the grain measure was
- 1 kilo = 33.148 liters = 0.44753 Bremen bushels
The weight with wheat was equivalent to 24.186 kg.
In Wallachia , the kilo was not a uniform measure of grain. This is how the kilo was divided
- 1 kilo = 16 Demerli = 3.936 hectoliters = 8 Bannizi
- 1 dimerli = 24.6 liters
Banizza was a mixture of 11 oka each of wheat , buckwheat , barley and millet , so that 44 oka made one Wallachian hundredweight. The kilo in the Principality of Moldova as a measure of grain was 4.35 hectoliters .
literature
- Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange-government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, pp. 91, 116, 179 and 522.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Universal Lexikon der Handelswissenschaften from August Schiebe 1837, accessed July 17, 2010, 1:00 p.m.