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An 1865 stamp of Romania. Post Office clerk wearing a uniform circa 1931-1941. CN Poșta Română SA is the national operator in the field of postal services in Romania.It is the sole supplier of universal service in any point on the Romanian territory.
Bpost uses the term poste restante (French), Postliggend (Dutch) or Postlagernd (German) which needs to be indicated on the post together with the name, optionally the first name, full name of the post office, postal code and city. The recipient has one month to collect the post, after which it will be sent back to the sender.
Country Company Website Status Algeria: Poste Algérie: poste.dz: Angola: Correios de Angola: correiosdeangola.ao: Benin: La Poste du Bénin: laposte.bj: Botswana
The first stamps inscribed "POSTA ROMANA" were issued in January 1865; the three values depicted Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza in profile, facing right. These did not last long in use, as Cuza was deposed the following year, and new stamps depicted Prince Carol I , also in profile, but facing left, and in a style very similar to contemporary ...
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
In many cases, the loanword has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear. English and German both are West Germanic languages, though their relationship has been obscured by the lexical influence of Old Norse and Norman French (as a consequence of the Norman conquest of England in 1066) on English as well as the High ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
AWB may refer to: .awb, a filename extension for Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband computer files; Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, a South African neo-Nazi organisation; Air waybill, an airline's receipt for goods; Astronomers Without Borders, a US-based organization; attoweber, a unit of magnetic flux; Average White Band, a Scottish band