Lan
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Łan ł 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 Franconia
n łan consisted of 43.2 morgs = 23 to 28 hectare
s. 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.
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
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 Franconia
Franconia
Franconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken...
n łan consisted of 43.2 morgs = 23 to 28 hectare
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
s. 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 fathom Fathom A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems, used especially for measuring the depth of water.There are 2 yards in an imperial or U.S. fathom... s) |
Lokci (Viennese ell Ell An ell , is a unit of measurement, approximating the length of a man's arm.Several national forms existed, with different lengths, includingthe Scottish ell ,the Flemish ell ,the French ell... s) |
m² |
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| 1 morg (Joch) (= 0.5755 ha Hectare The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2... ) |
3 | 1600 | 6439.02 | 5754.64 |
| 1 miar (Unit) (= 19.18 are ARE Are, ARE or Åre may refer to: United Arab Emirates using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code*The second-person singular and plural forms of the verb "to be", copula of the English language... ) |
533.33 | 2929.07 | 1918 | |
| 1 sazen wiedenski (Viennese fathom) | 4.0237 | 3.6 | ||
| 1 lokiec² wiedenski (square Viennese el²) | 0.9 |