A number of different units of measurement were historically used in Cyprus to measure quantities like length, mass, area and capacity. Before the Metric...
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A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...
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Byzantine units of measurement were a combination and modification of the ancient Greek and Roman units of measurement used in the Byzantine Empire. Until...
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pound Cypriot refugees Cypriot Sign Language Cypriot Super Cup Cypriot syllabary Cypriot Turkish Cypriot units of measurement Cypriot wine Cyprus Cyprus A...
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Mil (redirect from Mil (unit of length))
1/1000 Cypriot pound mil, (1⁄10-cent) of Hong Kong dollar mil, 1/1000 Maltese lira mil, 1/1000 Palestine pound .mil, the top-level Internet domain of the...
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cheapest of hot baths here at the principal house I ever had in my life: one franc." In 1820, Luxembourg made use of the metric system of measurement compulsory...
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Metrication (redirect from Adoption of the metric system)
process of converting to the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from local and traditional units of measurement to...
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Pound (mass) (redirect from Pound (unit of weight))
pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have...
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Oka (mass) (redirect from Oka (unit))
traditional units were abolished on March 31, 1953—the metric system had been adopted in 1876, but the older units remained in use. In Cyprus, the oka was...
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a hin was a little over 6 L (1.6 US gal). Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Judaism portal "Strong's Hebrew: 3849. לֹג (log) -- a log (a liquid...
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Decimalisation (section Rest of Oceania)
cases, the value of the main unit is so low that the sub-units are too small to be of any practical use and coins of the sub-units are no longer used...
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Arcadocypriot Greek (redirect from Arcado-Cypriot Greek)
Laconia, Crete, and Rhodes) at the end of the Bronze Age, was Proto-Arcado-Cypriot. The Mycenaean and Arcado-Cypriot dialects belong to the same group, known...
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Mediterranean trade, particularly the production and trade of Cypriot copper. The island of Cyprus was situated at a strategically important position along...
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Volt (disambiguation) (section Electrical measurement)
measurement functions volt-second (V⋅s), more commonly the weber (Wb), a unit of magnetic flux Volts Center Tapped (VCT), a unit of voltage output of...
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Carat (mass) (redirect from Carat (measurement))
into four diamond grains, but measurements were typically made in multiples of +1⁄64 carat. There were also two varieties of refiners' carats once used in...
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Stremma (category Human-based units of measurement)
stremma (pl. stremmata; Greek: στρέμμα, strémma) is unit of land area used mainly in Greece and Cyprus, equal to 1,000 square metres or approximately ¼ acre...
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Cyprus (‹See Tfd›Greek: Κύπρος, Kýpros) or the Theme of Cyprus (‹See Tfd›Greek: θέμα Κύπρου, théma Kýprou) was a Byzantine province located in the island...
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Canadian political party Cyprus Cycling Federation, a Cypriot bicycling organization Canadian Car and Foundry, a Canadian manufacturer of rail cars and buses...
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Biblical mile (category Obsolete units of measurement)
cubit being roughly between 46–60 centimetres (18–24 in) The standard measurement of the biblical mile, or what is sometimes called tǝḥūm šabbat (Sabbath...
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Kypros Nicolaides (category British people of Greek Cypriot descent)
a Greek Cypriot physician of British citizenship, Professor of Fetal Medicine at King's College Hospital, London. He is one of the pioneers of fetal medicine...
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manufacturer of radio equipment from 1914 to 1991 Noise criteria, a single-value measurement of background noise derived from a graphic representation of the sound...
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insistence on exact measurements in small units, and a mixture of arithmetic and geometric design principles. The book represents the state of the art for its...
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most countries today use the SI unit kilojoules as their primary measurement for food energy intake, with the exception of the USA, Canada, and the UK, which...
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The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...
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Carolingian monetary system (redirect from Carolingian system of coinage)
characterised by having three denominations with values in the ratio 1:20:240, the units of which went under different names in the different languages, but which...
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List of statistical topics List of academic statistical associations National agencies responsible for GDP measurement World Bank directory of national...
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is a list of flags used in the modern state of Greece or historically used by Greeks. List of Cypriot flags Flag of Greece per Royal Decree of 20 February...
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Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople. Two other units, the Digest and the Institutes, were created during his reign. The fourth...
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President of the International Electrotechnical Commission. The IEC was instrumental in developing and distributing standards for units of measurement, particularly...
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Canada (redirect from Etymology of Canada)
international measurements of government transparency, quality of life, economic competitiveness, innovation, education and human rights. It is one of the world's...
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