Redigerer Dunam

En '''dunam''' eller '''dönüm''', '''dunum''', '''donum''' er en [[måleenhet]] for [[areal]]. Den ble brukt i [[Det osmanske riket]] og er fremdeles i bruk, i varierende standardiserte versjoner, i mange av landene som tidligere var en del av Det osmanske riket. Målenheten var opprinnelig definert som «førti vanlige [[skritt (enhet)|skritt]] i lengden og førti vanlige skritt i bredden»,<ref>V.L. Ménage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. ''The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century'', Berkeley, 1971; in ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' (University of London) '''36''':3 (1973), pp. 659-661. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281973%2936%3A3%3C659%3ATDOMHI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K at JSTOR (subscription required)]</ref> men varierte vesentlig fra sted til sted.

Navnet ''dönüm'', fra [[osmansk tyrkis språk|osmansk]] ضنمق / ''dönmek'' (å snu), er antakelig et oversettelseslån av det [[bysants|bysantinske]] ''[[stremma]]'', som hadde samme størrelse. 
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It was likely adopted by the Ottomans from the Byzantines in [[Mysia]]-[[Bithynia]].<ref>Ménage, ''op.cit.''</ref>

Versions include:
* In [[Israel]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], and [[Turkey]] it is {{convert|1000|sqm|sqft|0}}. Before the end of the Ottoman Empire and during the early years of the [[British Mandate of Palestine]], the size of a dönüm was {{convert|919.3|sqm|sqft|0}}, but in 1928 the '''metric dunam''' of 1000 square metres was adopted, and this is still used.<ref>Roza I.M. El-Eini, ''Mandated Landscape'', Routledge, 2006, p''xxiii''.</ref> 
* [[Cyprus|Northern Cyprus]], the donum is 14,400 square feet (1,337.8 m²).
* In [[Iraq]] it is {{convert|2500|sqm|sqft|0|abbr=on}}.
* Other countries using a dunam of some size include [[Libya]], [[Syria]] and the countries of the former [[Yugoslavia]].
* The [[Greece|Greek]] [[stremma]] has approximately the same size, and the word has the same meaning ('turning').
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En '''metrisk dunam''' tilsvarer:
* 1000 [[kvadratmeter]]
* 10 [[ar]]
* 1 [[dekar]]
* 0.1 [[hektar]]

==Referanser==
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* [http://www.hagertygrain.com/weights_and_me.htm Foreign Weights and Measures Formerly in Common Use]
* [http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html Dictionary of units]
* [http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/Pages/Page_52.html Variable donums in Turkey]
* [http://www.sizes.com/units/doumlnuumlm.htm Summary based on UN handbook]
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