Stremma

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The stremma (στρέμμα, plural στρέμματα) is a Greek unit of land area, equal to 1000 square metres, also called the 'royal' stremma. The name comes from a root meaning 'to turn', presumably referring to the amount of land that can be plowed/turned in a day.^[1]

The "old", "Turkish", or "Ottoman" stremma was approximately 1270 m² (Λεξικό, 1998): it was the Greek name of the Ottoman dönüm,^[2] which was in turn based on the Byzantine stremma (see below). But Lapavitsas uses the value of 1600 m² for the region of Naoussa in the early 20th century.^[3]

The medieval or Morean stremma was different, somewhere between 900 and 1900 square meters, depending on the period and perhaps even the type of land.^[4]

The Byzantine stremma was defined as 100 square Greek feet or 40 Greek paces. It is likely the ancestor of the Ottoman dönüm/stremma.^[5]

Contents 1 Conversions 1.1 Metric 1.2 English units 2 See also 3 Bibliography

[edit] Conversions

One stremma is equivalent to:

[edit] Metric

• 1 000 square metres
• 10 ares
• 1 decare
• 0.1 hectare
• 0.001 square kilometres

[edit] English units

• 10,763.9 square feet
• 0.247 105 38 international acres
• 0.247 104 39 U.S. survey acres; 1 acre ≈ 4.047 stremmata
• 0.000 386 102 square miles (statute)

[edit] See also

• conversion of units
• 1 E3 m² for further comparisons

[edit] Bibliography

1. ^ Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής (Dictionary of Modern Greek), Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1998. ISBN 960-231-085-5
2. ^ Λεξικό
3. ^ Costas Lapavitsas, "Social and Economic Underpinning of Industrial Development: Evidence from Ottoman Macedonia", Ηλεκτρονικό Δελτίο Οικονομικής Ιστορίας [1]
4. ^ Siriol Davis, "Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino", Hesperia, Winter, 2004 [2]
5. ^ V.L. Ménage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century, Berkeley, 1971; in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 36:3 (1973), pp. 659-661. at JSTOR (subscription required); see also Erich Schilbach, Byzantinische Metrologie (referenced but not seen)