Meaning of desiatina | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of dessiatina.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“The area of the isolated farm was 25,060 desiatiny of garden, hayfield and plowland, with the latter category being almost 70% of the total area.”

“At the beginning of 1917 there were about 4,011,000 peasant households in Eastern Ukraine. Of these, 633,000 (15.8 per cent) had no land under cultivation; 802,000 (20.0 per cent) owned from 0.1 to 3.0 desiatiny per farm and were very poor; 2,230,000 (55.6 per cent) owned from 3.1 to 10.0 desiatiny, and were considered lower and middle class; the rest, 346,000 (8.6 per cent) owned more than 10.0 desiatiny each and were designated as rich peasants.”

“In the non-black-earth zone the maximum size of allotments ranged from three to seven desiatiny per soul, while in the more fertile black-earth zone the range was 2.75 to six desiatiny; […]”

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