Usually means: Unit of area measurement, Middle-East.
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noun:  (historical) An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
noun:  A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
noun:  Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).

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