Turkey
units of length, 1881

By a law of 1881.

pharoagh

mill

1000

arshin

1000

10000

parmak

10

10,000

100,000

khat

10

100

100,000

1,000,000

1 cm

10 cm

1 m

1 km

10 km

This law was part of an early, largely unsuccessful, attempt to institute the metric system in Turkey.

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