Terms vs Fedan - What's the difference?
terms | fedan |
A measure of land used in Egypt, slightly more than an English acre.
*1993 , (Rikki Ducornet), The Jade Cabinet , Dalkey Archive Press, p. 71:
*:Tubbs, in the fall of 1862, sent emissaries to Cairo to pressure Ismail, heir to the throne, into planting several thousand fedans – which Tubbs promised to buy.
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