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The Ottoman Empire ceded Tripolitania to Italy in 1912. From 1923 to 1934 stamps were issued for Tripolitania, which were used concurrently with those of Italian Libya.. The first stamps of Tripolitania were Italian "Propagation of the Faith" stamps overprinted TRIPOLITANIA issued on 24 October 1923 at the same time as those for Cyrenaica.
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.
Stamps of Italy were issued from 1912 overprinted Libia and later Italian colonial issues were issued specifically for Libya. The first definitives were issued in 1921, inscribed Libia Colonie Italiane. [2] [3] From 1924 to 1934 Tripolitania and Cyrenaica also had their own stamps before being unified in 1934, with Fezzan, as the Italian colony ...
Definitive British stamps were overprinted "M.E.F." beginning in 1942. They were available in Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Tripolitania as well as in the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean. At the beginning of 1943, the color-changed definitives were also overprinted, and in 1947, the 5-shilling and 10-shilling stamps received the ...
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 ...
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
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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.