Worldlex Wiki The unit is still in use in many areas previously ruled by the Ottomans, although the new or metric dunam has been redefined as exactly Ottoman Turkishcalque of the Byzantine Greekstremma and had the same size. It was likely adopted by the Ottomans from the Byzantines in Mysia-Bithynia.
The Dictionary of Modern Greek defines the old Ottoman stremma as approximately Costas Lapavitsas used the value of Naoussa in the early 20th century.
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Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia the unit is called the Leskovac, south Serbia, one dulum is equal to Albania it is called a Bulgaria, the decare (SI unit, literally meaning 10 ares.
Cyprus
In Cyprus, a donum is Republic of Cyprus older Greek-Cypriots also still refer to the donum using the local Greek Cypriot dialect word σκάλες [skales], rather than the mainland Greek word stremma (equivalent to a decare). However, since 1986 officially Cyprus uses the square metre and the hectare.
A donum consists of 4 evleks, each of which consists of stremma (decare, like the metric Iraq, the dunam is Israel, Palestine and Turkey, the dunam is decare. From the Ottoman period and through the early years of the British Mandate for Palestine, the size of a dunam was Libya and Syria.ByzantineGreekstremma was the probable source of the Turkish unit. The çift, Englishacre was originally similar to both units in principle, although it developed separately.
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