Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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  English unit

  English units refers to the historical units of measurement in medieval England, which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. They were redefined in England in 1824 by a Weights and Measures Act, which retained many but not all of the unit names with slightly...

• Swedish units of measurement

  In Sweden, a common system for weights and measures was introduced by law in 1665. Before that, there were a number of local variants. The system was slightly revised in 1735. In 1855, a decimal reform was instituted that defined a new Swedish inch as 1/10 foot. Up to the middle of the 19th century...

• Norwegian units of measurement

  As in the case of the Danes the Norwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from their ship burials. The 60 ft long Kvalsund boat was built ca. 700 AD and differs from the Danish boats less than it does from the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune ships which all date from ca. 800 AD. Thwarts...

• Romanian units of measurement

  The measures of the old Romanian system varied greatly not only between the three Romanian states (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania), but sometimes also inside the same country. The origin of some of the measures are the Latin (such as iugăr unit), Slavic (such as vadră unit) and Greek (such as...

• Obsolete Tatar units of measurement

  A native system of weights and measures was used by Tatars until 1924, but became obsolete when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system. The Tatar system shares many units with the Russian system (e.g. sajın and disätinä), which is close to the English (The Russian system existed since ancient...

• German units of measurement

  Germany had an indigenous system of German units of measurement prior to its adoption of the international metric system. These units are now mainly of historical interest. Before the introduction of the metric system in German, almost every town had its own definitions of the units shown below,...

• Danish units of measurement

  The Danes started with a system of units based on a Greek pous ("foot") of 308.4 mm (1.012 ft) which they picked up through trade in the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. Some early standards of measure can be recovered from measured drawings made of the 52.5-foot long Hjortspring boat which though...