Łan
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For the Polish village, see Łan, Lublin Voivodeship.
Łan [wan] (in English lan; in Latin laneus, in German Lahn), in Polish means "field," and is a unit of land measurement used in Poland. Since the 13th century, its value has varied from one location to another. A Franconian łan consisted of 43.2 morgs = 23 to 28 hectares. The term łan was also used to indicate a full-sized farm, as opposed to one split up into a number of smaller sections. In medieval times its value was anywhere between 3 and 50 hectares, but from the 13th century to 1857 in Great Lesser Poland (with Podkarpacie), the Franconian Łan was consistently used.
| Unit | Miar(Unit) | Sazni, (Viennese fathoms) | Lokci (Viennese ells) | m² |
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| 1 morg (Joch) (= 0.5755 ha) | 3 | 1600 | 6439.02 | 5754.64 |
| 1 miar (Unit) (= 19.18 are) | 533.33 | 2929.07 | 1918 | |
| 1 sazen wiedenski (Viennese fathom) | 4.0237 | 3.6 | ||
| 1 lokiec² wiedenski (square Viennese el²) | 0.9 |
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