Moggia (square measure)

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Moggia was an Italian square measure and was used as a field and arable measure in the Kingdom of Naples . For the volume of the same name, see Moggia (unit) .

  • 1 moggia = 900 square passi = 6750 square palmi = 4445 7/6 Parisian square feet = 469 1/7 square meters

Its division was partly decimal and so was fraudulent

  • 1 moggio = 10 decime = 100 centisemi / square can
  • 1 Moggio = 699.8684 square meters = 6.9987 hectares , about 164.16 square Canne (Sicilian.)

and on different Ionian Islands:

  • 1 moggio = 8 misure
  • Zante 1 Moggio = 97.576 ares

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 200.