Zucca (unit)

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Zucca was a French measure of volume for wine in Corsica . The Otro measure was only valid here and corresponded to the Soma measure .

  • 1 zucca = 54 pinti = about 13.07 Paris cubic inches , which was 2.5926 liters (= 2.63 liters)
  • 1 barril = 2 some = 12 courgettes = 108 pinti = 432 quarti = 140 liters
  • 1 Otro = 6 Zucche = 15.8 liters

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 160
  • Association of Scholars and Practical Merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for business people in general. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old mass, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, 1986, p. 353, ISBN 3 4110 2148 9
  2. ↑ August Schiebe: Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 541
  3. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old mass, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, 1986, p. 206, ISBN 3 4110 2148 9