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Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.
Lawrence L Shenfield, Confederate postal history; Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lanka's greatest philatelist; Paul Skinner, Head Curator of the Philatelic Collection of the British Library; Evelyn Arthur Smythies [20] William Carlos Stone, revenues and philatelic literature [12]
This is a list of philatelic bureaus across the world. In philately , a philatelic bureau is the part of a national postal administration that sells philatelic items to stamp collectors , tourists and stamp dealers .
The Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies was founded in 1988. Siddique Mahmudar Rahman was the first director of the institute. [ 1 ] The institute in 2004 published the first interactive database of Bangladesh stamps on a compact disk.
Bangladesh first issued its own postage stamps upon gaining independence in 1971. [1] A set of eight stamps, with various motifs including a map of the country, were issued. [2] [3] Shortly after, stamps in eight values were overprinted "Bangladesh Liberated" in both English and Bengali were prepared in the United Kingdom, but only three values were issued in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the official government-owned news agency of Bangladesh, was created on 1 January 1972 from the Dhaka bureau of the state-owned. Abul Kalam Azad , who was formerly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 's press secretary, became its chief editor in 2014. [ 32 ]
It has issued more than one hundred philatelic publications since formation. BNPA arranges national and regional philatelic exhibitions and holds monthly auctions in the capital Dhaka. The membership fee is 200 TK year (general member) or 2500 TK (Life member). BNPA is arranging Philatelic get together cum Auction on 1st and 3rd Friday of every ...
In the era of modern postage, the postal administrations in Palestine have included Austrian, French, Italian, German, Egyptian, and Russian post offices (through arrangements made with the Ottoman Empire), the Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, the British Mandate, and various interim authorities in the lead up to and after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.