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Alqueire is a
traditional unit of
measurement in Portuguese. The term has been do****ented in
Portugal since the 12th century. It is
derived from the Arabic...
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alqueire was
equal to 40 to 320 L (generally for
grain 33 L) (According to some sources, 1
alqueire = 5.324 L,
alqueire (salt) = 4.076 L, 1
alqueire (common)...
- arrátel (Arabic: ratl),
arroba (Arabic: rub),
quintal (Arabic: qintar),
alqueire (Arabic: kayl),
almude (Arabic: mudd),
fanega (Arabic: faniqa),
cafiz (Arabic:...
- with a moio of seed. 1 moio = 15 fangas/fanegas = 60
alqueire = 120
meios alqueires (1/2
alqueire) = 240
quartas = 480
oitavas = 960
sixteenths (half eights)...
- Metric, but some non-metric
units are used for
specific areas:
rural land –
alqueire;
cattle weight – arroba;
screen sizes – polegada; tyre
pressure – libra-força...
- was more
present in the
south of the country.
Fundamental units like the
alqueire and the
almude were
imported by the
northwest of
Portugal in the 11th century...
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parochial church held an
extensive 20
alqueires of land in cultivation, as well
receiving an
annual tithe equal to 15
alqueires. Even
today the
lands around Areia...
- e
Vasconcellos ordered the
landowners in
Furnas to
plant at
least one
alqueire of taro in
order to
stave off malnutrition,
provide feed for pigs and later...
- Distributism", in The
Hound of Distributism. Corção,
Gustavo (1946). Três
alqueires e uma vaca: Capa com
desenho de G. K.
Chesterton (in
Brazilian Portuguese)...
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equivalent to the
alqueire of that
system (8.7 liters). In the
system introduced by
Pedro I, the
almude was
again equivalent to 2
alqueires (about 19.7 liters)...
