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The first issued stamp of Åland. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Åland. Åland forms an archipelago in the Baltic Sea that is an autonomous, Swedish-language-speaking region of Finland.
On August 20, 2024, Sri Lanka's Postal Department issued the world's longest stamp, measuring 205 millimetres (8.1 in), [10] to commemorate the Kandy Esala Perahera festival in Kandy. The stamp has a value of Rs. 500. [11]
After British forces occupied Eritrea and the other Italian colonies during World War II, British postage stamps overprinted M.E.F. (Middle East Forces) were used. These were replaced by issues overprinted B.M.A. ERITREA or later B.A. ERITREA to reflect the change from British military to British civil administration.
The African territories of Ruanda and Urundi came under Belgian control as Ruanda-Urundi after they were seized from Germany during World War I in 1916. They had previously formed part of German East Africa. Stamp overprinted for the Belgian Occupied German East Africa Territories, 1916 Belgian Congo stamp overprinted "Ruanda Urundi" , 1924
6-pence of 1938, used in 1943 at Gaberone's Village, later Gaborone. The first stamps inscribed Bechuanaland Protectorate appeared in 1932. The 12 values, ranging from 1 ⁄ 2 d to 10 shillings, all used the same design; a group of cattle next to a baobab tree, surmounted by a portrait for King George V.
In his reign, a currency for the Muslim world was minted. This led to war with the Byzantine Empire under Justinian II (Battle of Sebastopolis) in 692 in Asia Minor. The Byzantines were decisively defeated by the Caliph after the defection of a large contingent of Slavs. The Islamic currency was then made the exclusive currency in the Muslim world.
A 1933 stamp from the first issue of Basutoland. Stamps of the Cape of Good Hope were used in Basutoland in 1880, then those of South Africa in 1910. The first stamps of Basutoland were definitive stamps issued in 1933 [1] and were a set of ten stamps all of the same design depicting King George V and the Nile Crocodile against a background of ...
A 1967 stamp featuring the Hulhulé Airport. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Maldives. The Maldive Islands are located in the Indian Ocean and are formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls stretching in a north-south direction off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and Chagos Archipelago.