Desiatina
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A desiatina, also known as desyatina, desiatin or desyatin (Russian: десятина), is an archaic, rudimentary measure of area used in tsarist Russia for land measurement. A dessiatin is equal to 2,400 square sazhens and is approximately equivalent to 2.702 English acres, 10,925 square metres, or 1.09 hectare.[1][2]
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[edit]- ^ Emilciuc, Andrei (2023). "Organization and Functioning of the Salt Extracting Industry in Bessarabia (1812-1850)". Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt. Archaeopress: 253–266. doi:10.2307/jj.5329287.27. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ Naft, Stephen (1961). International Conversion Tables: Weights, Measures, Gauges, Currencies, Conversion Equivalents and Factors, Technical Units, Alphabets [and] Other Useful Information. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. p. 140. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
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