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Turn stremmata into square metres, okades into kilos and pichis into metres, using the values deeds and markets assume.
The metric system replaced these units on 29 December 1953, but titles, contracts, old inventories and recipes still use them.
Stremma: 1,000 square metres, so ten stremmata make a hectare. It is still the unit for measuring farmland.
Oka: 1.2829 kg, divided into 400 dramia, so one drami is 3.207 grams.
Pichi: the trade pichi is 0.648 m and the mason's (tektonikos) pichi is 0.75 m. They are different values, which is why both appear separately.
Local variants were many, especially in old Ionian stremmata and nineteenth-century contracts. If a document uses a local unit, the conversion needs a or surveyor.
The official stremma is. In old contracts and in some regions the local stremma was smaller, so measurements in inherited farmland should be checked by a surveyor.
The mason's pichi of 0.75 m appears in building descriptions and old quotes, while the trade pichi of 0.648 m appears in cloth and yarn. The page gives both.
Not in retail, but in markets, recipes and conversations about olive oil or honey the oka and the drami survive.
No: this page is about measurement units. The drachma was fixed at 340.75 per euro and that conversion belongs to other tools on the site.
The values are the official metric ones and the historical trade values. Local variants, especially old stremmata, need a surveyor or notary to confirm.
Equivalent
4,000 Square metres