Stremma

 ( Units Of Area ) 

The stremma ( stremmata; , strémma) is unit of land area used mainly in Greece and Cyprus, equal to 1,000 or approximately acre.

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History The Ancient Greece Greek units was the square plethron, which served as the Greeks' form of the acre. It was originally defined as the area plowed by a team of oxen in a day. but was nominally standardized as the area enclosed by a square 100 Greek feet ( pous) to a side. It was the size of a Greek wrestling square.

The Byzantine units or stremma continued to vary depending on the period and the quality of the land, but usually enclosed an area between .Siriol Davis, "Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino", Hesperia, Winter, 2004 [1] It was originally also known as the "plethron" but this was eventually replaced by "stremma", derived from the verb for "turning" the ground with a Byzantine plow.Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής (Dictionary of Modern Greek), Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1998.

The Ottoman stremma, often called the Turkish stremma, is the Greek (and occasionally English) name for the dunam, which in turn is probably derived from the Byzantine unit.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. Again, this varied by region: some values include , The Dictionary of Modern Greek Λεξικό, 1998 and 1,600 m².Costas Lapavitsas,

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Conversions One modern stremma is equivalent to:

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Metric

• 1,000
• 0.1
• 0.001

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Imperial

• 10,763.9 square foot
• 0.247 105 38
• 0.000 386 102

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See also

• 1 E3 m² for further comparisons
• Byzantine units
• Conversion of units
• Greek units
• Metric units

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