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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Tripolitania, now part of Libya. Tripolitana is a historic region of western Libya , centered on the coastal city of Tripoli . Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire , Tripolitania was captured by Italy in 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War .
A 1930 stamp issued at the Tripoli International Fair. From 1924 to 1934 Tripolitania and Cyrenaica also had their own stamps, before being unified in 1934, with Fezzan, as the Italian colony of Libya. Stamps of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica were used concurrently with those of Italian Libya.
Perforated stamps of the fourth standard edition of the Sardinian kingdom with an embossed profile of Victor Emmanuel II were issued in 1862. Starting on 1 January 1863, uniform postal rates went into effect. In 1862 Count Ambjörn Sparre won the stamp contract, but his designs were not liked, and he seemed unable to produce the stamps.
Stamp of Italian Cyrenaica. Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania were formed in 1911, during the conquest of Ottoman Tripolitania in the Italo-Turkish War.. Derna - Bar and restaurant Cirenaica - Goods train (stamped on 29 December 1916) The Italian Benghazi Municipio (City Hall) in the 1920s The Palazzo Littorio, later called the "Parliament of Cyrenaica", built in 1927
Libyan passport stamps on a 1998 visa. Libya first issued revenue stamps when it was an Italian colony in 1913 and continues to do so to this day. The provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan as well as the municipality of Tripoli also had separate revenue issues until the 1950s and 1960s.
Tripolitania 10-lire stamp of 1950 with face of King George VI. Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan. In 1944, Idris as-Senussi returned from exile in Cairo but declined to resume permanent residence in Cyrenaica until the removal in 1947 of some aspects of foreign control.
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The lira ( Arabic : ليره , plural: lire , abbreviation: MAL), officially known as the Military Authority Lira , was the currency of the British zone of occupation (later Mandate Territory) in Libya between 1943 and 1951, and of the province of Tripolitania ...
In 1949, separate issues appeared for Fezzan (a regular series of 11 denominations from 1 to 50 francs, plus six postage due stamps ranging from 1 to 20f) and Ghadames, consisting of eight regular (4f to 25f) and two airmail (50 and 100f) stamps, featuring the Cross of Agades. [1] [2] [3] A two-value set of semi-postal stamps appeared in 1950.