An official system of weights and measures was established[citation needed] in the ancient
Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (550-350 BCE). The shekel and mina ("profane" or "sacred") were units of both weight and volume. A shekel or mina weight was equal to the weight of that volume of water. The talent was a measure of weight used for large amounts of coinage. Some related units were used in Persia in the 19th century, and are still used in contemporary Iran.
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"Ancient Measurements". smithlifescience.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. "Abbreviations". loghatnaameh.org (in Persian). Archived...
This is a list of obsolete unitsofmeasurement, organized by type. These unitsofmeasurement are typically no longer used, though some may be in limited...
Greek, and Byzantine unitsofmeasurement. The unitsof length seem to have originally been anthropic, based on various parts of the human body, although...
themselves *pank'a, in Persian unitsofmeasurement, one pace, approximately 1.5 meters (5 feet) Pankha, Hindu for the punkah, a type of fan Alternative spelling...
or djerib (Persian: جریب; Turkish: cerip) is a traditional unitof land measurement in the Middle East and southwestern Asia. It is a unitof area used...
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indigenous unitofmeasurement, equivelant to the Scandinavian mile, is used, known as farsang. It is originally a Persianunitofmeasurement, equivelant...
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process of converting to the metric system ofmeasurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from local and traditional unitsofmeasurement to...
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of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities...
miles, furlongs, and yards (see page 18 of the fact book). "Appendix E. General Tables ofUnitsofMeasurement". Retrieved 14 January 2020. (links to a...
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