Ancient Italian unit of length
Metric conversion table, 1860 Canna (pl. canne ; proper meaning in Italian: Cane) was an ancient Italian unit of length , which differed from place to place.
Capua : 2.1768707 m (9th – 15th centuries)[ 1] Republic of Genoa : 2.49095 mKingdom of Naples :
canna: 2.1163952 m (edict of 6 April 1480)
canna: 2.6455026 m (law of 6 April 1840)
field surveying canna: 6.998684 m² (law of 6 April 1840) Romagna : 1.9928 mSicily : 2.062 mTuscany
field surveying canna, a.k.a. 5 "braccia" long "pertica ": 2.9183 m
canna (fabric): 0.58366 m Rome
canna (architecture): 2.234 m
commercial canna: 1.992 m Teramo : 3.17 mMalta : 2.08 m (2 yd, 10 in)[ 2]
Sources
Notes
^ *De Rosa, Vincenzo (1977). "Tavole di ragguaglio delle misure napoletane comuni e delle consuetudinarie capuane con il sistema metrico decimale". Quaderni della Gazzetta di Gaeta (in Italian) (14). Cassino: Di Bernardo.
^ "The Water Supply of the Maltese Islands" (PDF) . Archivum Melitense . VII (1). Malta Historical and Scientific Society: 6. 1922. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. One Maltese canna is practically, equal, [sic yards 10 inches . 