Oka (measure)
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Oka a traditional Turkish measure of weight equaled 1.28 kilograms. It was used not only in Turkey but also throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The oka's size varied somewhat over the large area formerly included in the Ottoman empire. In Greece, the oka was standardized at 1282 grams and remained in use until traditional units were prohibited in 1959. The Greek oka was divided into 400 dramja; in Cyprus, under British rule, the oka was divided into 400 drachms and remained in use until the 1980s.
The oka was also sometimes used as a unit of liquid volume, representing the volume occupied by an oka (weight) of water or wine (roughly 1.25 liters).
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