-
Byzantine Gr****
stremma was the
probable source of the
Turkish unit. The
zeugarion (Turkish çift) was a
similar unit
derived from the area
plowed by a team...
-
continuities between the
Eastern Roman and
Ottoman empires, such as that the
zeugarion tax of
Byzantium became the
Ottoman Resm-i çift tax, that the pronoia...
- feet, but now set at
exactly 1,000
square metres (a
similar unit was the
zeugarion)
Dunam or
Turkish acre ≈ 1,600
square Turkish paces, but now set at exactly...
-
quality under the
Byzantines between 900 and 1900 m2
Modios Zeugarion módios (μόδιος)
zeugárion (ζευγάριον) 30000 2973
Highly variable.
Modioi were sometimes...
- "zeugaratikion", a land tax
based on the
zeugarion - the area of
farmland which could be
ploughed by a pair of oxen. The
zeugarion itself was
taken up as the Ottoman...
- pinakion, modios, and
those of
surface area modios,
megalos modios and
zeugarion.
Measures for
water and wine were
called megarikon,
metron and tetartion...
-
which can be
ploughed by a pair of oxen - the
equivalent of the
Byzantine Zeugarion. It has been
argued that the
basic land tax in Asia
Minor and the Balkans...
-
agriculture and
taxpaying in 11th-century Crete,
helping to
define terms like
zeugarion and choraphion.
Besides the Bios, some
sermons on the
Gospel of Matthew...
