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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...
- 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)...
- 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)...
- arrátel (Arabic: ratl), arroba (Arabic: rub), quintal (Arabic: qintar), alqueire (Arabic: kayl), almude (Arabic: mudd), fanega (Arabic: faniqa), cafiz (Arabic:...
- 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)...
- 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...
- Metric, but some non-metric units are used for specific areas: rural land – alqueire; cattle weight – arroba; screen sizespolegada (inch); tyre pressure...
- be a test area for the use of the alqueire unit of measure in the distribution and productivity of lands. The alqueire, equivalent to Roman (8.733 litres)...
- Silva and his family, having acquired the initial terrain of 15 coffee alqueires, where the first house was built. List of muni****lities in Minas Gerais...
- Distributism", in The Hound of Distributism. Corção, Gustavo (1946). Três alqueires e uma vaca: Capa com desenho de G. K. Chesterton (in Brazilian Portuguese)...