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Lira was the common currency for Rome Lira (Pound) is the name of the monetary unit
Currency

A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
 of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
, San Marino
San Marino

The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is a country in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked country Enclave and exclave, completely surrounded by Italy....
 and the Vatican City
Vatican City

Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....
. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound (Latin libra) of high purity silver, and as such is a direct cognate
Cognate

Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymology origin.An example of cognates within the same language would be English shirt vs....
 of the British pound sterling
Pound sterling

----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
; in some countries, such as Cyprus
Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
, the words lira and pound
Pound (currency)

The pound, a unit of currency, originated in England, as the value of a pound mass of silver. For a long time, ?1 worth of silver coins were a troy pound in mass....
 are used as equivalents.






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Lira was the common currency for Rome
Lira (Pound) is the name of the monetary unit
Currency

A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
 of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
, San Marino
San Marino

The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is a country in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked country Enclave and exclave, completely surrounded by Italy....
 and the Vatican City
Vatican City

Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....
. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound (Latin libra) of high purity silver, and as such is a direct cognate
Cognate

Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymology origin.An example of cognates within the same language would be English shirt vs....
 of the British pound sterling
Pound sterling

----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory....
; in some countries, such as Cyprus
Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
, the words lira and pound
Pound (currency)

The pound, a unit of currency, originated in England, as the value of a pound mass of silver. For a long time, ?1 worth of silver coins were a troy pound in mass....
 are used as equivalents. L, sometimes in a double-crossed script form (£) or less often single-crossed (£
Pound sign

.The pound sign is the symbol for the pound sterling?the currency of the United Kingdom . The same symbol is used for currencies of the same name in some other countries and territories; there are other countries whose currency is called "the pound", but that do not use the ? symbol....
), is usually used as the symbol.

Etymology

The word Libra developed its Lira shape from Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, a language famed for its loss of initial consonants in two-part clusters (ie. Doctor = dottore). Evidence of this still exists in Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
 and the USA where pound is a weight measurement, and represented by letters lb.

Current uses


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....

The Turkish lira
Turkish lira

The Turkish lira is the currency of Turkey and the non-recognized nations of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The lira is subdivided into 100 kurus....
 was introduced in the mid 1870s. The New Turkish Lira, equivalent to 1,000,000 old lira, is the current currency
Currency

A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
 of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 and Northern Cyprus, issued on January 1 2005. The designation New Turkish Lira was replaced by Turkish Lira
Turkish lira

The Turkish lira is the currency of Turkey and the non-recognized nations of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The lira is subdivided into 100 kurus....
 after January 1 2009.

Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....

The Lebanese pound
Lebanese pound

The Lebanese pound is the currency unit of Lebanon. It is divided into 100 qirsh or piastres but inflation has eliminated the subdivisions....
 is called "lira or livre" in local languages.

Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....

The Syrian pound
Syrian pound

The Syrian pound is the currency of Syria and is issued by the . The pound is subdivided into 100 qirsh , although coins in qirsh are no longer issued....
 is called "lira" in national language of Syria, Arabic.

Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....

A widely-used name of Jordanian dinar
Jordanian dinar

The dinar is the currency of Jordan. The dinar is divided into 10 dirham, 100 qirsh or 1000 fils .The Jordanian dinar also circulates in West Bank together with the Israeli new sheqel....
 is lira.

Also:
The Bulgarian language refers to the English pound as lira (or occasionally paund to reflect English phonology) in opposition to Croatian which refers to the Italian as liri and the English as funti (from German).

Former currencies

  • Cyprus pound (called "lira" in local languages)
  • Israeli lira
  • Italian lira
    Italian lira

    The lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a ?national subunit? of the euro....
  • Italian East African lira
    Italian East African lira

    The lira was the currency of Italian East Africa between 1936 and 1941. It was equivalent to the Italian lira and Italian currency circulated, together with banknotes first issued in 1938....
  • Italian Somaliland lira
    Italian Somaliland lira

    The lira was the currency of Italian Somaliland between 1925 and ca. 1938. It replaced the Italian Somaliland rupia at a rate of 8 lire = 1 rupia....
  • Maltese Lira
    Maltese lira

    The lira was the currency of Malta from 1972 until 31 December 2007. The lira was abbreviated as Lm, although the traditional ? sign was often used locally....
  • Neapolitan lira
    Neapolitan lira

    The lira was the currency of the mainland part of the Kingdom of the Sicily, known as the Kingdom of Naples, between 1812 and 1813. The currency was issued by Joachim Murat, who claimed the title of "King of the Two Sicilies" but only controlled the mainland part of the kingdom....
  • Sammarinese lira
  • Tripolitanian lira
    Tripolitanian lira

    The lira was the currency of the U.K. zone of occupation in Libya between 1943 and 1951. It was issued by the "Military Authority in Tripolitania" and replaced the Italian lira at par....
  • Vatican lira
    Vatican lira

    The lira was the currency of the Vatican City between 1929 and 2002....
  • Pound (currency)
    Pound (currency)

    The pound, a unit of currency, originated in England, as the value of a pound mass of silver. For a long time, ?1 worth of silver coins were a troy pound in mass....
     cognate
  • French livre
    French livre

    The livre was the currency of France until 1795. Several different livres existed, some concurrently. The livre was the name of both units of account and coins....
     cognate


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