Kwaterka

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Kwaterka was a Polish measure of volume and was one of the smaller measures. The measure means quarter and was nothing more than the contents of a small beer glass.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Korzec = 4 Cwierc = 32 Garniec = 128 Kwarta = 512 Kwaterka = 128 liters

literature

  • Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: Poland: a historical-geographical-statistical pocket book for traveling businessmen and newspaper readers. Duncker and Humblot Publishing House, Berlin 1831, p. 119