In Cyprus, ? – present1, a unit of capacity, by a law enacted 20 May 1890 (No. XI., 1890)2 = 2.8 imperial quarts, approximately 3.182 liters. Chaney also lists it as a unit of mass = 1.8 okes; the meaning of that escapes us (water weight?).
1. United Nations, 1966.
Technical Factors..., 1972, page 142.
TRNC
2. Henry J. Chaney.
Our Weights and Measures. A Practical Treatise on the Standard Weights and
Measures in use in the British Empire...
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897.
Page 42.
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