Dounam

A dounam or dönüm , dounum , donum is a Measuring unit of Surface. It does not belong to the international Système of units. The SO corresponding unit is the Square meter (m ²).

At the origin, the dönüm (in Othoman Turkish: ضنمق/ dönmek - " tourner") the quantity of ground represented which a man could plow in one day. This inaccuracy led to differences in this measurement according to the areas. This unit continues any time to be used in several countries of old the Ottoman Empire.

Several standardized versions continue to coexist:

In Cyprus of North, the dounam is equivalent to 1.337,8 m ².
In Iraq, it is of 2.500 m ².
In Israel/Jordan/Lebanon/Palestinian Authority/Turkey, it is worth 1.000 m ². Before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the dönüm was to 919,3 m ² but the metric dounam was fixed at 1.000 m ² during the British mandate in Palestine and this value remained.
Of other countries like the Libya, the Syria, and of the republics of old the Yugoslavia also uses dounams.
the Stremma in Greece has about same dimensions and its name has the same direction to turn .

Conversions

1 dounam is equivalent to:

1.000 m ² (precisely)
0.1 Hectare S (precisely)
1 Decare (precisely)
10 Are S (precisely)
0.247 105.381 acre S (approximately)
1 195.990 05 yd ² (approximately)
10 763.910 4 square feet (approximately)

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