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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
A map showing the location of Cyrenaica. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica, now part of Libya.. Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state ("muhafazah" or "wilayah") of the country (alongside Tripolitania and Fezzan) in the pre-1963 administrative system.
A 1-lire airmail stamp, depicting an Arab horseman pointing to an airplane passing overhead. Italian Tripolitania and Italian Cyrenaica were formed in 1911, during the conquest of Ottoman Tripolitania in the Italo-Turkish War. Despite a major revolt by the Arabs, the Ottoman sultan ceded Libya to the Italians by signing the 1912 Treaty of Lausanne.
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.