Morgen

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For the water sprites, see Morgens.

A morgen was a unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies, including South Africa, equivalent to about 2 acres. It was also used in Prussia, Norway and Denmark, where it was equal to about two-thirds of an acre. The word is usually taken to be the same as the German and Dutch word for "morning", the area of a morgen being equal to that covered by a morning's ploughing.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.