Piastre

Piastre
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Piastre ko piaster (Turanci: /piˈæstər/) kowane ɗayan ɗayan kuɗi ne. Kalmar ta samo asali ne daga Italiyanci don "farantin ƙarfe". An yi amfani da sunan ga Mutanen Espanya da Hispanic American guda takwas, ko pesos, ta hanyar 'yan kasuwa na Venetian a Levant a karni na 16.

Waɗannan pesos, waɗanda aka ci gaba da haƙa har tsawon ƙarni, 'yan kasuwa sun karɓe su cikin hanzari a sassa da yawa na duniya. Bayan da kasashen Latin Amurka suka sami 'yancin kai, pesos na Mexico ya fara kwararowa ta hanyoyin kasuwanci, kuma ya zama mai yawan gaske a Gabas mai Nisa, inda ya maye gurbin Sifen guda takwas wanda Mutanen Espanya suka gabatar a Manila, kuma ta Portuguese a Malacca . Lokacin da Faransawa suka mamaye Indochina, sun fara fitar da sabon piastre na Indochina na Faransa ( piastre de commerce ), wanda yayi daidai da ƙimar pesos na Mutanen Espanya da na Mexica .

A cikin daular Ottoman, kalmar piastre sunan turawa ne na Kuruş . Sauye-sauyen canjin kudin da aka samu ya rage darajar daular Ottoman a karshen karni na 19 ta yadda ya kai kusan pence biyu (2d) Sterling . Don haka sunan piastre yana nufin nau'ikan tsabar kudi daban-daban guda biyu a sassa daban-daban na duniya, duka biyun sun fito ne daga guntun Mutanen Espanya guda takwas .

Saboda ƙasƙantar dabi'un masu fasinja a Gabas ta Tsakiya, waɗannan 'yan fashin sun zama raka'a na biyu na fam ɗin Turkiyya, Cyprus da kuma Masar.^[1] A halin yanzu, a Indochina, piastre ya ci gaba har zuwa 1950s kuma daga baya aka sake masa suna riel, kip, da dong a Cambodia, Laos da Vietnam bi da bi.

1. ↑ Thimm, Carl Albert. "Egyptian Money". Egyptian Self-Taught. wikisource. William Brown & Co., Ltd., St. Mary Axe, London, E.C.