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Greece's first postal service was founded in 1828, at the time of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire.This initial service continued mail delivery and, later, the issuing of postage stamps until 1970.
Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers. See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.
The postage stamps and postal history of the Comoro Islands is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of the Comoro Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago located on the south-east side of Africa. [1] The postal service was linked to France during the colonization, who began in Mayotte in the 1840s.
A 1968 stamp of Biafra A map of Biafra at the time of secession Stamps "Republic of Biafra. May 30. 4D". This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Biafra.. The Republic of Biafra was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria which existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970.
1983 –1 Inauguration of Quetta Natural Gas Pipeline Project – 6 January 1983; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 2 1983 –2 Wildlife 9th Series (Butterflies) – 15 February 1983; Four stamps were issued on this occasion These stamps were issued in gutter sheets with Five gutters Value: Rs. 40p, 50p, 60p, Rs. 1.50
The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the Chinese: 郵政局; pinyin: yóuzhèngjú post office. The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
The historiography of early Islam is the secular scholarly literature on the early history of Islam during the 7th century, from Muhammad's first purported revelations in 610 until the disintegration of the Rashidun Caliphate in 661, and arguably throughout the 8th century and the duration of the Umayyad Caliphate, terminating in the incipient Islamic Golden Age around the beginning of the 9th ...