Media (unit)
Media was a Hungarian measure of volume. It was suitable for liquids and as a grain measure. The measure was the legally specified Hungarian half . A Reichstag resolution of 1807 established it for the whole of Hungary and determined that it would be binding from June 24, 1808. The measure was also the Hungarian icze.
- 1 media / half = 2 sides / Seidel / Meszely = 4 Rimpel / Fel meszely = 42.0185 Parisian cubic inches = 0.8335 liters
Grain measure
- 1 media = 42 1/55 Parisian cubic inches = 21/25 liters
- 64 media / half = 1 Metzen (Hungarian or Pressburger)
liquid measure
As a liquid measure , it was a wine measure .
- 1 media / half = 42 1/55 Parisian cubic inches = 21/25 liters
- Ödenburg 84 Media = 1 Ako
- Pressburg 64 Media = 1 bucket (pressb.) = 2689.18685 Parisian cubic inches = 53.34365 liters
- Debrecen 50 Media = 1 Czeber (smaller)
- Debrecen 100 Media = 1 Cseber (large)
- Tokaj 64 Media = 1 bucket
- Tokaj 176 Media = 1 barrel
literature
- Joseph Jäckel: Latest European coin, measure and weight. Volume 2, Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1828, p. 271
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 121
Individual evidence
- ^ Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 655