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1-centime stamp of Anjouan, 1892. 5-centime stamp of Grand Comoro, 1897. 2-centime from the Group series of Mohéli, 1906. A very few numbers of letters posted before 1900 in the Comoros are known. The oldest came from Mayotte in December 1850 and do not bear a postage stamp. Mayotte became a French colony at the beginning of the 1840s after ...
A 1938 stamp of Saudi Arabia. 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.
The Afghan stamps of the 1930s and 1940s are rather plain affairs, mostly typographed, with large blank spaces in the design. The definitive series of 1951 was finely engraved by Waterlow and Sons, several featuring portraits of Mohammed Zahir Shah . A large number of Afghan stamps appeared in the 1960s.
The postal service of Iraq proper began with the British mandate granted by the League of Nations in 1920. The first stamps of Iraq were a definitive series that appeared in 1923; the set of 12 included eight different designs depicting scenes and images from ancient history and the present day. They were denominated in annas and rupees ...
Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously dated between the 8th century and 16th century). Muslim scholars made advances to the map-making traditions of earlier cultures, [ 1] explorers and merchants learned in their travels across the ...
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Indian postal agencies. In 1864 British colonial post offices using India's postage stamps were opened in Muscat and Bushire. These two postal outlets proved very successful and in 1867, Anglo-Indian post offices were opened in Bandar Abbas, and Linga. In the course of time a total of 13 Indian Post Offices operated in Iran.
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).