Percha (unit)

Percha was an Italian measure of length in the Kingdom of Naples .

The size was shaped by the regionally different size between 1.838 and 2.3346 meters . It was the Italian rod and also had the middle name Canna. That was the case in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany

• 1 percha = 5 baccia = 2.3346 meters

It was also the second name of the Italian length and field measure Pertica , which was used as a measure of length in Parma and Venice and as a measure of area in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany with its center of Florence , Duchy of Parma , Piacenza and Venice.

The following also applied:

Apulia , Calabria , Eboli and Foggia

• 1 percha = 815 ½ Parisian lines = 1.838 meters

Capua

• 1 percha = 838 4/5 Parisian lines = 1.893 meters

Naples and Fiano

• 1 percha = 873 7/10 Parisian lines = 1,971 meters

Salerno , Cagiano, Cava , Mocera and Rocce

• 1 percha = 893 ⅓ Parisian lines = 2.014 meters

literature

• August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig and the Schumann brothers, Zwickau 1839, p. 576
• FA Niemann: Complete manual of the coins, measurements, and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse publishing house, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 182
2. ↑ FA Niemann: Complete manual of the coins, measurements, and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 232