Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
"This is the fathom from Craiova of eight palms, Bujorianu". Inscription on the wooden church in Mănăilești-Moșteni, Vâlcea county.
The measures of the old Romanian system varied greatly not only between the three Romanian states (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania), but sometimes also inside the same country. The origin of some of the measures are the Latin (such as iugăr unit), Slavic (such as vadră unit), Greek (such as dram unit) and Turkish (such as palmac unit) systems.
This system is no longer in wide use since the adoption of the metric system in 1864, however some rural communities still use a small subset of these units.
Length
Palmă (palm) - 1/8 of a stânjen
Stânjen - 2 m (approximately)
Palmac - 3.48 cm (Moldavia)
Poștă - 8–20 km (depending on the country)
Pas mic (small step) - 4 palme (Wallachia) (palme is the plural noun for palmă)
Pas mare (large step) - 6 palme (Wallachia; Moldavia)
Lat de palmă (palm width) - 1/2 palmă
Cot (cubit) - 664 mm (Moldavia); 637 mm (Wallachia)
Funie (rope) - 20–120 m (depending on the place)
Leghe (league) - 4.444 km;
Deget (finger) – the width of a finger
Prăjină – 3 stânjeni (stânjeni is the plural noun for stânjen)
Verstă – 1067 m (3,500 ft)
Picior (foot) – 1/6 of a stânjen
Volume
Note: the "quarts" in this table are imperial quarts, not US quarts. Similarly for gallons.
