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See also: pik

In the eastern Mediterranean, a unit of length usually applied to textiles.

Cyprus, ? – 20^th century		24 inches (approximately 60.96 centimeters), by Law XI, passed 20 May 1890. 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.
Syria	Damascus, 20^th century	70 centimeters
Syria	Aleppo and Homs, 20^th century	68 centimeters
Lebanon		68 centimeters for textiles; 75.8 centimeters for agriculture. United Nations, 1966.