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This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840. The list includes any kind of governmental entity or officially approved organisation that has issued distinctive types of stamp for postal purposes. These include post offices in foreign countries and postal services organised by ...
1937 stamps of South Africa. The first stamp of the Union of South Africa was a 2 1 ⁄ 2 d stamp issued on 4 November 1910. [2] [3] It portrayed the Monarch King George V and the arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. Most South African stamps issued between 1926 and ...
Postage stamps. The first Orange Free State stamps were issued in 1868. The sole design used was an orange tree, with the inscription "Oranje Vrij Staat" in the margin. The stamps were typographed by De La Rue and Company, and came in denominations from one penny to five shillings, in various colours. Periodic shortages forced the use of ...
A postage stamp to commemorate Venkayya and the first flag was issued in 2009. [2] The Vijayawada station of All India Radio was named after him in 2014. [13] [14] In 2012, his name was proposed for a posthumous Bharat Ratna though there has been no response from the central government on the proposal. [4] [6]
Mali Federation. In 1959 and early 1960 nine stamps were issued in the name of the short-lived Federation of Mali which consisted of Senegal and French Sudan. They depict symbols of the Federation with a series of fish and a common issue with some other of former French colonies in Africa. But tensions quickly arose between the two states of ...
Smith, Peter A S, Egypt: Stamps and Postal History - A Philatelic Treatise, J Bendon, 1999, 922pp, ISBN 9963-579-81-7 Chalhoub, J.H. and Hass, C., The Nile Post: Handbook and Catalogue of Egyptian Stamps, Including Listings of the Egyptian Issues for Palestine and Sudan, as Well as Those of the French Consular Post Offices in Alexandria and ...
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Benin, formerly Dahomey . Located in West Africa, Benin borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin. Benin is just over 110 000 km2 in size with a population of almost 8,500,000.
Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa. Muslims crossed current Djibouti and Somaliland to seek refuge in present ...