A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. It is not an SI unit. The SI unit of area is the square metre (m²). The word unit means any of several things: Unit of measurement or physical unit, a fundamental quantity of measurement in science or engineering. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Jump to: navigation, search The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International dUnités) is the most widely used system of units. ... Jump to: navigation, search The metre or (in American English) meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...

Originally, a dönüm, from the Turkish dönmek (to turn), was the amount of land one man could till in one day. It was not precisely defined and varied considerably from place to place. It is still used, in various standardized versions, in many countries formerly part of the Ottoman empire. Jump to: navigation, search Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Bursa (1335 - 1365), Edirne (1365-1453), Ä°stanbul (Constantinople) (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli...

Versions include:

• Northern Cyprus, the donum is 1,337.8 m².
• In Iraq it is 2,500 m².
• In Israel, it is 1,000 m². Before the end of the Ottoman Empire, the size of a dönüm was 919.3 square meters, but during the British Mandate of Palestine the metric dunam of 1,000 m² was adopted, and this is still used.
• In the Palestinian Authority, it is 1,000 m².
• In Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon it is 1,000 m²
• Other countries using a dunam of some size include Libya, Syria, and countries of the former Yugoslavia.

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Conversions

A metric dunam is equal to:

• 1 000 square metres (exactly)
• 0.1 hectares (exactly)
• 1 decare (exactly)
• 0.247 105 381 acres
• 1 195.990 05 square yards
• 10 763.910 4 square feet

A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of area. ... For the municipality in Sweden, see Ã…re; for the boroughtown and rural municipality in Estonia see Are; for the language from Papua New Guinea see Are For the ARE see either Arab Republic of Egypt or Association for Research and Enlightenment An are (symbol a) is a unit of area. ... An acre is an English unit of area. ... This article is about the unit of measure known as the yard. ... A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot long. ...

External links

• Foreign Weights and Measures Formerly in Common Use
• Dictionary of units
• Variable donums in Turkey
• Summary based on UN handbook