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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.
The Dull Rose is a Ceylonese (modern-day Sri Lanka) postage stamp that is considered to be the rarest and most valuable stamp issued in the country. [1] [2] 7000 stamps were issued on 23 April 1859, bearing a face value of four pence.
Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, poet (1977) Mohammed Cassim Siddi Lebbe, lawyer, educator, journalist (1977) Veera Puran Appu, revolutionary (1978) Sir Ernest de Silva, Philanthropist; D. S. Senanayake, prime minister (1979) Piyadasa Sirisena, patriot, writer (1979) Swami Vipulananda, philosopher (1979) Rowland Hill, postal reformer (1979)
Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka Post This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 07:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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]
The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා තැපැල් Shri Lanka Tæpæl), is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the Ministry ...
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 military occupations, international organisations, colonies, provinces, city-states and some revolutionary movements.
Postal codes in Sri Lanka; Postmaster General of Sri Lanka; S. Sri Lanka Post This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 07:25 (UTC). Text is available under ...