Stânjen

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Stânjen was a Romanian measure of length and also the basis for area and volume measures.

Length measure

Wallachia

1 stânjen = 8 palm = 10 degete = 1000 linii = 1.97 meters
- 3 Stânjeni = 1 Prâjina
- 10,000 Stânjeni = 1 Postâ

Moldova

1 stânjen = 8 palm gospodâresti = 64 palmace = 2.23 meters

Area measure

Moldova

1 Stânjen = 1.6576 square meters

Wallachia

1 stânjen = 64 palm pătrati = 6400 degete patrati = 640,000 linii pătrati = 3.86712 square meters

Volume measure

Moldova

1 Stânjen cubic = 512 palm cubice = 11.08957 cubic meters

Wallachia

1 Stânjen cubic = 512 palm cubice = 7.604696 cubic meters

literature

Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 159 .