Voua

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Voua was a rear Indian measure of length in Siam , the region that is now part of Thailand , Cambodia and Laos . The measure corresponded to the fathom and was suitable as land and field measure. 1600 Voua corresponded to one Siamese mile .

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 iodine = 4 sen = 80 voua = 160 ken = 320 sok / socks

or

  • 1 Voua = 2 Ken = 4 Socks = 8 Keubs = 96 Nious = 768 grains of rice
  • 1 Voua = 452 Paris lines = 1 37/40 meters

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg clerk, who knows the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe. Publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1808, p. 498.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. VIII.
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 370.