Stremma
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The stremma (Greek: στρέμμα, plural στρέμματα) is a Greek unit of land area, equal to 1,000 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 1,270 m² (Λεξικό, 1998): it was the Greek name of the Ottoman dönüm,[2] which was in turn based on the Byzantine stremmax (see below). But Lapavitsas uses the value of 1,600 m² for the region of Naoussa in the early 20th century.[3]
The medieval or Morean stremmax was different, somewhere between 900 and 1,900 m², depending on the period and perhaps even the type of land.[4]
The Byzantine stremma was defined as the area of a square whose sides have a length of 100 Greek feet or 40 Greek paces. It is likely the ancestor of the Ottoman dönüm/stremma.[5]
Conversions
One stremma is equivalent to:
Metric
- 1,000 square metres
- 10 ares
- 1 decare
- 0.1 hectare
- 0.001 square kilometres
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)
See also
- conversion of units
- 1 E3 m² for further comparisons
Bibliography
- ^ Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής (Dictionary of Modern Greek), Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1998. ISBN 960-231-085-5
- ^ Λεξικό
- ^ Costas Lapavitsas, "Social and Economic Underpinning of Industrial Development: Evidence from Ottoman Macedonia", Ηλεκτρονικό Δελτίο Οικονομικής Ιστορίας [1]
- ^ Siriol Davis, "Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino", Hesperia, Winter, 2004 [2]
- ^ 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)