Para (currency)
The para (Template:Langx; from Template:Langx, meaning 'piece')<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was a term given to former currencies of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar.
In 1524, the Ottoman law code of Egypt (kanunname) referred to the Mamluk Egyptian coin medin as pare and set its value as Template:Frac dirham. Since 1640 the value of para was settled relative to Ottoman currency, at 3 akçe. In the 16th and 17th centuries pare were minted in many parts of the empire, in Asia and north Africa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1688 the Ottoman kuruş was introduced, equalling 40 para. In 1844, a kuruş was, in turn, Template:Frac of the newly introduced Ottoman lira.
The modern Turkish lira is only divided into {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.
In Serbia, the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} during its brief existence between 1906 and 1918. In Albania, the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} was used as a currency before the introduction of the lek in 1926.
In Albanian, Kurdish, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Mandaic, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian (пара) and Turkish, para or its plural {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, pari, pare, parale, parai, paraja or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} is a generic term for money.
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