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Postage Stamps And Postal History Of Cyprus
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cyprus. The country's postal history is intricately linked to the island's political past. Ottoman and Austrian postal services Postal services existed during the Venetian and Ottoman periods of occupation. There was an Ottoman postal service in Nicosia from 1871 where mail was hand stamped "KIBRIS". A few Turkish Duloz stamps are known used on fragments or as singles (no complete cover has yet been found). Stamps of the Austrian post offices in the Turkish empire were used at Larnaca from 1864 with values up to 25 kreuzer.''Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue: Cyprus, Gibraltar & Malta''. 1st edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2004, p. 1. The British administration The British administration of Cyprus began on 11 July 1878 and initially British stamps were used which may be identified by the numbered cancels used. The first postage stamps marked Cyprus were British stamps overprinted CYPRUS from 1880. The first postage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus Stamp 1966 Aphrodite-from-Soloi
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically in Western Asia, its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Northern Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 1974 invasion and which is List of states with limited recognition, recognised as a country only by Turkey. The Prehistoric Cyprus, earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
