Shagar
The shagar was a measure of weight and grain in Shirvan (now a historical area of Azerbaijan ), a Russian province that was Persian until 1812. The measure was dependent on the size of the goods. For wheat , flour , rice , peas and lentils one calculated
- 1 shagar = 40 Batman = 800 pounds (Russian) / Funti = 20 poods
For Chaltyk (a kind of rice)
- 1 shagar = 30 Batman = 600 pounds (Russian) = 15 poods (1 pud = 16.36 kilograms )
literature
- August Schiebe : Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 590.
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1106.