Porrone

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Porrone , also after Porron, was a Spanish liquid measure, especially for wine in Barcelona and Tarragona .

  • 1 quarto = 4 porrone
  • 1 cortane = 32 porrone
  • 1 carga = 512 porrone
  • 1 porrone = 12 1/5 Parisian cubic inches = 6/25 liters
  • Barcelona: 1 porrone = 0.942 liters
  • Tarragona: 1 porrone = 1.083 liters
    • Tarragona: 32 Porrone = 1 Armina = 34.75 liters

literature

  • Wilhelm Hoffmann: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers, business people. Volume 2, Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1848, p. 443.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , pp. 23, 232.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Alb. Niemann : Complete handbook of coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world, Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 256.