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DunamA '''dunam''' or '''dönüm''', '''dunum''', '''donum''' is a Units of measurement|unit of area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman Empire. It was defined as "forty standard pace (unit of length)|paces in length and breadth",[V.L. Ménage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. ''The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century'', Berkeley, 1971; in ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' (University of London) '''36''':3 (1973), pp. 659-661. at JSTOR (subscription required)] but varied considerably from place to place.
The name '''dönüm''', from the Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish ضنمق / ''dönmek'' (to turn) appears to be a calque of the Byzantine stremma and had the same size. It was likely adopted by the Ottomans from the Byzantines in Mysia-Bithynia.[Ménage, ''op.cit.''] In Arabic, the word is spelled '''دونم''' (''dūnam'').
Versions include:
- In Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey it is . Before the end of the Ottoman Empire and during the early years of the British Mandate of Palestine, the size of a dönüm was , but in 1928 the '''metric dunam''' of 1000 square metres was adopted, and this is still used.[Roza I.M. El-Eini, ''Mandated Landscape'', Routledge, 2006, p''xxiii''.]
- Cyprus|Northern Cyprus, the donum is 14,400 square feet (1,337.8 m²).
- In Iraq it is .
- Other countries using a dunam of some size include Libya, Syria and the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
- The Greece|Greek stremma has approximately the same size, and the word has the same meaning ('turning').
The dunam is not an SI unit. The SI unit of area is the square metre (m²).
Conversions
A metric dunam is equal to:
- 1,000 square metres (exactly)
- 0.1 hectares (exactly)
- 1 decare (exactly)
- 10 ares (exactly)
- 0.247105381 acres (approx)
- 1,195.99005 square yards (approx)
- 10,763.9104 square foot|square feet (approx)
References
External links
- Foreign Weights and Measures Formerly in Common Use
- Dictionary of units
- Variable donums in Turkey
- Summary based on UN handbook
Category:Units of area
Category:Human-based units of measure
Category:Words of Turkish origin
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