Original scientific paper
Length and Area Measures in the Kotor Commune Through Centuries
Marija Zaninović-Rumora
; Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Abstract
In this paper, the author follows the development of the measuring system in the Kotor commune between the XVth and the XIXth centuries. On the basis of the results achieved in Croatian metrology, the author’s research conducted so far, written archival and printed sources, and tradesmen’s manuals, the paper analyses the development of basic length and area measures in the mentioned time period, ranging from the earliest communal measures, the Venetian measuring system and Austrian measures to the modern metric system. The Kotor commune and Boka Kotorska had since 1420 shared Dalmatia’s political fate, having become a part of the Venetian Stato da Mar on the eastern Adriatic coast. After the collapse of the Venetian Republic (1797) and the brief French rule (1805 – 1813), it became a part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Metrological systems, which are basically economic, depend on and are in connection with the political power; hence, before the introduction of Austrian measures in 1856, first the Kotor communal measures and later the Venetian measuring system had been used.
Keywords
Kotor; measures; XVth c. – XIXth c
Hrčak ID:
94335
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Publication date:
29.12.2012.
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