Most definitions I have seen (I do not have access to the OED) set a
hide's area at roughly 120 acres. An acre is roughly 43,560 square feet,
4840 square yards, or 4047 square meters. A clan tula consisting of 200
hides would thus cover 24,000 acres => 1,045,440,000 square feet =>
116,160,000 square yards => 97,128,000 square meters. Translating into
more useful units, our 200-hide tula would cover an area of 37.5 square
miles or 97.1 square kilometers, making it a little larger than John's
example.
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