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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon. 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 ...
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.
Joseph Vaz, Indian Catholic missionary, "Apostle of Sri Lanka" (1992) Pope John Paul II, leader of Catholic Church from 16 October 1978 - 2 April 2005 (1995) Kithalagama Sri Seelalankara Thera, Buddhist monk (2005) Professor Seneka Bibile, pharmacologist, politician (2006) Sri Narayana Guru Saint, Social Reformer, Poet KERALA (2009)
The first stamps in local denominations of rupees and cents were issued on 1 February 1892. On August 20, 2024, Sri Lanka's Postal Department released the world's longest stamp, measuring 205 millimetres (8.1 in). [5] This stamp celebrates the Sri Dalada Perahera festival in Kandy. [6]
Postal museum is a Sri Lanka's national museum of post that located at the Postal Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Firstly, the postal museum was functioned at the Central Telegraph Office during 1918–1925, and moved to General Post Office in 1994. Again, a national postal museum was opened on 6 July 2010. [1]
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 ...
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