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Duro Faseyi
Duro may refer to: *Spanish peseta, Duro (monetary unit), a nickname for the five Spanish peseta, peseta coin *''Duro v. Reina'' (1990), a U.S. Supreme Court case *Samir Duro, Bosnian footballer *Ibrahim Duro, Bosnian footballer *Duro (Star Wars), Duro (''Star Wars''), a fictional planet in the ''Star Wars'' franchise *the Mowag Duro, a wheeled military vehicle produced by MOWAG **includes the Duro III *Showtek (Sjoerd Janssen), Dutch DJ sometimes called DJ Duro *Ken Duro Ifill, American audio engineer *Duros (food) See also * Duros (other) * Đuro {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Peseta
The peseta (, ), * ca, pesseta, was the currency of Spain between 1868 and 2002. Along with the French franc, it was also a ''de facto'' currency used in Andorra (which had no national currency with legal tender). Etymology The name of the currency originally comes from ''peceta'', a Catalan diminutive form of the (Catalan) word ''peça'' (lit. ''piece'', i.e. a coin), not from the Spanish ''peso'' (lit. ''weight''). The word ''peseta'' has been known as early as 1737 to colloquially refer to the coin worth 2 ''reales provincial'' or of a peso. Coins denominated in "pesetas" were briefly issued in 1808 in Barcelona under French occupation; see Catalan peseta. Symbol Traditionally, there was never a single symbol or special character for the Spanish peseta. Common abbreviations were "Pta" (plural: "Pts), "Pt", and "Ptas". A common way of representing amounts of pesetas in print was using superior letters: "Pta" and "Pts". Common Spanish models of mechanical typewrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
