Salma (unit)

The salma was an Italian and Spanish measure of volume and weight. In Sicily , the salma was also used as a measure of area.

Italy

Grain measure

In Italian, the one distinguished measure of grain the Salma rasa , the coated Salma, and Salma colma or heaped Salma. The measure differed in different places. The dimensional chain was general

• 1 Salma = 4 Bisacche (also Bisaccia, pl.Bisacce ) = 16 Tomoli (so called Tomolo) = 96 Mondelli = 960 Carozzi
• 1 Salma = 4 Bisacche = 16 Tomoli = 64 Mondelli = 256 Carozzi = 1024 Quarti = 4096 Quartigli

The coated salma for wheat and barley had

• 1 Salma = 14,544.5 Parisian cubic inches = 288.51 liters

The heaped Salma for beans , peas , lentils , corn , flax and hemp seeds , salt and charcoal was

• 1 salma = 16,871 3/5 Parisian cubic inches = 34 ⅔ liters

But many goods were also sold by weight. A salma of 20 tomoli was called salma grossa, the one with 16 tomoli was called salma generale. The tomolo with 55.5451 liters was the Neapolitan term, the Sicilian one had 17.357 liters.

• • 1 salma barley = 20 tomoli
  • 1 Salma hazelnuts = 22 tomoli = 200 rotoli
  • 1 Salma flaxseed = 20 tomoli = 320 rotoli
  • 1 Salma chestnuts = 20 tomoli = 314 rotoli

Measure of salt

The salma, as the Italian weight measure for salt, was also called salt salma and was a measure in Trapani , the capital and port city of Sicily with remarkable sea ​​salt production .

• 1 salma = 5.4506 hectoliters , which corresponds to 500 kilograms

Corresponded to Sardinia

• 1 salma salt = 1400 libbre / pound = 568 kilograms

Oil measure

As had an oil measure

• 1 Salma = 16 Staja = 8145.35 Parisian cubic inches = 161.574 liters, equivalent to 147.31 kilograms

In the Kingdom of Naples , especially in Gallipoli , the oil measure was different and

• 1 Salma = 10 Staja = 320 Pignatte = 810 Parisian cubic inches = 161 liters, equivalent to 300 Prussian. lb

Area measure

For the square measure salma, or the sowing salma, was the dimensional chain

• 1 Salma = 4 Bisacce = 16 Tomoli = 64 Mondelli = 256 Carozzi = 1024 Quarti = 4096 Quartigli / square Canne
• 1 salma = 174.626 ares

Spain

The Spanish salma, also known as tonelada , was a measure of grain in Catalonia .

• 1 Salma = 4 Cuarterna = 48 Cortana = 192 Picotins

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.
• Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states. Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 77
2. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 332
3. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1242
4. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1100
5. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 719
6. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 790