Krina (unit)

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The Krina was a Bulgarian measure of volume. According to a law of 1889, the grain size was determined as the "new Krina" or Nova Krina .

1 krina = 20 liters
5 krina (new) = 1 kilo (bulgar.) = 1 hectolitre

At the older level had

1 Krina = 12.82 liters
10 krini = 100 oki = 1 dunavsko kiló = 128.2 liters

literature

Konstantin Jireček: The Principality of Bulgaria. F. Tempsky, 1891, p. 226 (reprint 2013)
Peter Kurzwell: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 219.

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , pp. 78, 150.