In Tana, a city near present-day Azov, ruled in the 14ᵗʰ century by Genoa, a unit of mass = 1 cantar of Pera, perhaps about 56 kilograms.
Lo cannin della Tana fae in Pera catars 1.
The cannin of Azov is 1 kantar in Pera [present-day Beyoğlu, a part of Istanbul].
Pegolotti, 1340.
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