Yuk

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Yük was a Turkish saddle load.

Normal seam load

Eastern Anatolia 1 Aşil yük = 8 Boġča = 32 Amider batman = 50560 dirhem (1 d. = 3.207 grams ) = 162.144 kilograms

Silk hem load

1 Harȉr yükü = 10 batman = 61.5 kilograms (value for the year 1518 in Erzincan)

literature

Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights: converted into the metric system. Volume 1, Brill Archive, Leiden / Cologne 1970, p. 36.