A unit of land area used in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe, equal to about 2.7 acres.
From Russian десятина (desyatina), derived from десять (desyat'), meaning 'ten.' The term originally referred to a tithe or 'one-tenth,' and became a standardized measurement of land in Russian agricultural practice.
The word 'desiatin' is baked with cultural history—Russian landowners measured their wealth in desiatins, and the term appears constantly in 19th-century Russian novels like Crime and Punishment because land equaled power.
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