Stremma


The stremma is unit of land area used mainly in Greece and Cyprus, equal to 1,000 square metres or approximately acre.

History

The ancient Greek equivalent was the square plethron, which served as the Greeks' form of the acre. It was originally defined as the area plowed by a team of oxen in a day but was nominally standardized as the area enclosed by a square 100 Greek feet to a side. It was the size of a Greek wrestling square.
The Byzantine or Morean stremma continued to vary depending on the period and the quality of the land, but usually enclosed an area between. It was originally known also as a "plethron" but this was replaced eventually during Byzantine times by the word "stremma", derived from the verb for "turning" the ground with a plow.
The Ottoman stremma or Turkish stremma, is the Greek name for the dunam, which is probably derived from the Byzantine unit. Again, this varied by region: some values include, and 1,600 m2.

Conversions

One modern stremma is equivalent to:

Metric