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The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age, during the rule of Sargon of Akkad, and successive empires have established and operated a ...
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Saudi Arabia, formerly known as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd until 22 September 1932. The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd had been separate countries until the mid-1920s. Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and ...
An 1867 stamp of Egypt. First Egyptian stamps were issued on 1 January 1866. The 1867 issue featured a pyramid and the sphinx. Stamps issued in 1872 were inscribed in Italian "Poste Khedive Egiziane'. Egypt joined the UPU in 1875. From 1879 stamps were inscribed in French. [ 4] A 1926 stamp of Egypt depicting Fuad I.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[ note 1] ( Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850 ), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...
The exact length of a cubit is not clear; with an 18-inch cubit his estimate would be 3,600 miles, whereas with a 22-inch cubit his estimate would be 4,200 miles. [33] One significant problem with this approach is that Al-Biruni was not aware of atmospheric refraction and made no allowance for it.
These stamps, which were initially bought by many collectors due to lack of knowledge, at best have only a low value as curiosities. The Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue wrote under the keyword South Moluccas : It appears that the stamps of the so-called republic of South Moluccas were privately issued and had no postal use.
A stamp of British India overprinted in 1944 for use in Oman. A surcharged British stamp issued in 1948 by the British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia. The first post office to open in the region was at Muscat on 1 May 1864. This was originally under the Bombay circle but it was transferred to the Sind ( Karachi) circle in April 1869 and then ...
One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 3 1987 –4 Drug Free Society Preventive Education Against Drug Abuse – 30 June 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 1 1987 –5 Independence Day – 14 August 1987; Two stamps were issued on this occasion Value: 80p, Rs. 3 1987 –6 Air Force Day – 7 September 1987