From the Arabic tahwila, “field”.
In Spain, ? – 21st century, a unit of land area originally used for irrigated farmland. Values for localities in the province of Murcia are yet to be entered; it is typically 1,118 square meters.
| Locale | Area in sq. meters |
Equivalencies | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 831 | |||
| Villena1 | 852 | A square 32 varas on a side. These varas are about 0.912 meter, slightly larger than the Valencian vara of 0.906 m | |
| Benejama1, Biar1, Campo de Mirra1, Cañada1 | |||
| Sax1 | 856 | 1 jornal = 6 tahullas | |
| Crevillente1, Elche1, Santa Pola1 | 953 | But 1118 sq. meters at S. Felipe Neri in Crevillente and in the "zona lindante con Dolores" in Elche | |
| Aspe1 | 961 | A square 34 Valencian varas on a side. | |
| Hondón de las Nieves1 | 1 jornal = 6 tahullas | ||
| Hondón de los Frailes1 | Previously they used a tahulla = 1078 sq. meters | ||
| Novelda1 | 1078 | 1 jornal = 5 tahullas | = 8 octavos = 256 brazas |
| Monforte del Cid1 | 1 jornal = 6 tahullas | ||
| La Romana1 | |||
| Dolores1, San Fulgencio1, San Felipe Neri1; province of Almeria2 |
1,118.2336 | A square 40 Castillian varas on a side. This is the Murcian tahulla. It occurs in this area as a result of a resettlement scheme of Cardinal Belluga. |
|
| all of the partido of Orihuela1; all of Baix Segura except Dolores and San Fulgencio1 | 1,185 | A square 38 Valencian varas on a side. | |
| Elda1, Alicante1, Campello1, Muchamiel1, San Juan de Alicante1, San Vincente del Raspeig1 | 1201 | = 8 octavos. 1 octavo = 32 sq. brazas. 1 braza = 9.5 palmos. |
|
| Agost1, Tibi1, Torremanzanas1, Petrer1, Xixona1 | 1 jornal = 4 tahullas | ||
| Villajoyosa1 | the jornal de tierra is 2,980 sq. meters | ||
| Castalla1, Castell de Castells1, Ibi1, Onil1 | 1246 | = 1.5 hanegadas |
1. Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Téchnicos Agrícolas y Peritos
Agrícolas de Alicante.
Medidas superficiales antiguas, usadas en la provincia de Alicante y su
equivalencia en unidades métricas.
No date. Published online: www.dip-alicante.es/coitapa/medidas.pdf
Accessed 15 April 2007.
2. Dirección General del Instituto Geográfico y Estadístico.
Equivalencias entre las Pesas y Medidas Usadas Antiguamente en las Diversas
Provincias de España y las Legales del Sistema Métrico-Decimal.
Publicadas de Real Orden.
Madrid: Imprenta de la Dirección General del Instituto Geográfica y Estadístico,
1886.
In medieval Lorca, Spain, a unit of irrigation water entitlement = 1 hour's flow.1
1. Thomas F. Glick.
Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia.
Cambridge (MA): Harvard Univ. Press, 1970.
Chapter 12, note 14 in the list of localized Arabisms.
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