The Macedonian cubit was a unit of measurement in use in
ancient Macedonia
Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...
. It was approximately 14 inches long, making it somewhat shorter than other
cubit measurements used in the ancient world.
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Ancient weights and measures
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...
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Cubit
Obsolete units of measurement
Human-based units of measurement
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