Alqueire is a traditional unit of measurement in Portuguese. The term has been documented 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:...

Metric, but some non-metric units are used for specific areas: rural land – alqueire; cattle weight – arroba; screen sizes – polegada; tyre pressure – libra-força...

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...

Distributism", in The Hound of Distributism. Corção, Gustavo (1946). Três alqueires e uma vaca: Capa com desenho de G. K. Chesterton (in Brazilian Portuguese)...

e Vasconcellos ordered the landowners in Furnas to plant at least one alqueire of taro in order to stave off malnutrition, provide feed for pigs and later...

that the church had a rector with a stipend that included 5 bushels, 3 alqueires and 8 of wheat, along with 8$000 réis, along with a treasurer supported...

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)...

parochial church held an extensive 20 alqueires of land in cultivation, as well receiving an annual tithe equal to 15 alqueires. Even today the lands around Areia...

Albino Ribeiro, João Batista Algodoal and Emílio Marozzi buy an area of 4-alqueire around the bath house. Octavio Moura Andrade makes his first visit to São...

situated within the vicinity of the parish, an area of approximately 500 alqueires of thicket, 400 metres (1,300 ft) above sea level. On 3 July 1839, an...

royal records indicated the annual salary was 19,000 réis, one moio (60 alqueires) and one pipa (500 kilograms) of wine. Other documents from the historical...

trad. par Hugues Kéraly, Le Barroux: Sainte-Madeleine. ——— (1946), Três Alqueires e Uma Vaca [Three Acres & a Cow] (in Portuguese), Agir [trans. into Spanish...

of customs. Exports of wheat and dried beef also began. In 1816, 400 alqueires of wheat were traded to Lisbon and, in 1818, more than 120 thousand arrobas...

residence, and 34 alqueires of wheat, 30 alqueires of rye and 27 almudes of wine; the remaining clergy received 10.000 réis and 30 alqueires of rye; the parish...

the Royal House with 16$000 réis per month of Fidalgo Cavaleiro and a alqueire of barley per day. In 1748, Pereira de Sampaio achieved what is considered...

Order of Christ, and had for an abode as a Squire 2230 réis a month and 1 alqueire (between 13 and 22 litres) of barley a day, married his relative Lourença...

others worked in government works. The settlers planted more than eighty alqueires of land - in the area provided to them by Emperor Pedro II, shortly before...

1715), the former prelate referred to the hermitage as a producer of two alqueires of land. This vicar had purchased three-quarters of land and some lands...

da Graça. By April 21, 1796 his income was 1.6 mil-réis a month and 1 alqueire of barley a day, and he also had granted an annuity of 400 mil-réis for...

the town limits. Its vicar received a stipend of 7 bushels of wheat, 4 alqueires of wheat and 8$000 réis to support his services to the community. In the...

and a rector assigned to the curia supported by four bushels and 51 alqueires of wheat, in addition to 8$000 réis, in addition to a stipend of one moio...

Senhora do Rosário, whose Vicarage produces in the order of 7 moios, 4 alqueires of wheat and 8,000 reis. There is more, a chapel of the Castillians constructed...

project was well conceived and executed, but subtracted a promised eight alqueires of corn (which was also promised at the time). The ombudsman of the Confraria...

municipal government. At this time, Francisco Rodovalho donated eight alqueires of land alongside the college, João Moreira a few houses (which were destroyed...

deforested to make way for large cattle farms or for small farms of 5–15 alqueires around urban locations. Jânio Quadros came to power in 1955 and took a...

24$000 reis, and later (1700), the parish received seven moios and 19 alqueires of wheat, in addition to 10$333 réis. Between 1571 and 1616 it was its...