Maquia

This article is about the old maquia grain measure. For the 2018 anime film see: Maquia - An Immortal Love Story .

Maquia was a volume and grain measure in Portugal and Brazil . It was the smallest measure of Moio , the Metzen . It was only the 16th part of the Alqueires. Since the moio was not uniform in size, the maquia swayed as well. From 830.45 liters (general average size of the Moio) the following results as a guide value for the measure:

• 1 Maquia = ½ Salamin / Selamin ≈ 0.86505 liters

The dimensional chain was

• 1 moio = 15 fangas / fanegas = 60 alqueires = 120 meios alqueires (half alqueires) = 240 quarras / quarter = 480 oitavas / eighth = 960 meias oitavas / half eighth (sixteenth) / salamins = 1920 maquias = 830.45 liters

and was as a shortened dimensional chain

• 1 alqueire = 4 quarts = 16 maquias = 697.75 Parisian cubic inches = 13.841 liters

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 510.