Compendium of postage stamp issuers (F)

Dates

1878 –

Capital

Port Stanley

Currency

(1878) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound

(1971) 100 pence = 1 pound

See also

British Antarctic Territory;

Falkland Islands Dependencies;

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

Dates

1946 –

Currency

(1946) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound

(1971) 100 pence = 1 pound

Main Article

Postage stamps and postal history of the Falkland Islands Dependencies

Includes

Graham Land (Falkland Island Dependencies);

South Georgia (Falkland Islands Dependencies);

South Orkneys (Falkland Islands Dependencies);

South Shetlands (Falkland Islands Dependencies)

See also

British Antarctic Territory;

Falkland Islands;

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

Dates

1920 – 1922

Capital

Vladivostok

Currency

100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble

Refer

Russian Civil War Issues

Dates

1879 – 1887

Currency

(1879) 1 folus = 1 paisa = 1/4 anna

(1886) 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee

Refer

Faridkot in Indian Convention states

Dates

1976 –

Capital

Thorshavn

Currency

100 ore = 1 krone

Main article

Postage stamps and postal history of the Faroe Islands

Refer

Zil Elwannyen Sesel

Refer

Yugoslavia

Dates

1900 – 1935

Capital

Kuala Lumpur

Currency

100 cents = 1 dollar

Main Article

See also

Malaysia

Now called Bioko (also spelled Bioco), Fernando Poo is an island off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Formerly part of Spanish Guinea, it is now part of Equatorial Guinea.

Dates

1868 – 1968

Capital

Santa Isabel

Currency

100 centimos = 1 peseta

Refer

Spanish Guinea

Dates

1943 – 1951

Capital

Sabha

Currency

French (100 centimes = 1 franc)

Main Article

Includes

Ghadames

See also

Algeria;

Cyrenaica;

French Occupation Issues;

Libya;

Tripolitania

Refer

Fezzan

Dates

1870 –

Capital

Suva

Currency

(1870) 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound

(1969) 100 cents = 1 dollar

Main Article

Postage stamps and postal history of Fiji

Dates

1856 –

Capital

Helsinki

Currency

(1856) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble

(1865) 100 penni = 1 markka

(1963) 100 old marks = 1 new mark

(2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

Main Article

Postage stamps and postal history of Finland

Main Article

Includes

Aunus (Finnish Occupation);

Eastern Karelia (Finnish Occupation)

Includes

Arbe;

Fiume (Free State);

Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation);

Veglia

Dates

1918 – 1924

Capital

Fiume

Currency

(1918) 100 Fillér = 1 krone

(1919) 100 centesimi = 1 corona

(1920) 100 centesimi = 1 lira

Refer

Fiume

Dates

1945 – 1947

Currency

100 centesimi = 1 lira

Refer

Fiume

Dates

1941 – 1942

Currency

100 paras = 1 dinar

Refer

Italian Occupation Issues

Refer

Chinese Nationalist Republic (Taiwan);

Taiwan

Dates

1849 –

Capital

Paris

Currency

(1849) 100 centimes = 1 franc

(2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

Main Article

Postage stamps and postal history of France

Dates

1942 – 1946

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Refer

French Occupation Issues

Dates

1859 – 1886

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Includes

French Committee of National Liberation

Dates

1943 – 1945

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Refer

French Colonies

Refer

French Colonies

Dates

1891 – 1906

Capital

Brazzaville

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

See also

Congo Republic;

French Equatorial Africa;

Middle Congo

Dates

1936 – 1958

Capital

Brazzaville

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

See also

Central African Republic;

Chad;

Congo Republic;

French Congo;

Gabon;

Middle Congo;

Oubangui–Chari

Dates

1886 – 1947

Capital

Cayenne

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

Includes

Inini

Dates

1892 – 1944

Capital

Conakry

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

See also

French West Africa;

Guinea

Dates

1892 – 1954

Currency

(1892) 100 centimes = 1 franc

(1923) 24 caches = 1 fanon; 8 fanons = 1 rupee

Main Article

Refer

French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

Dates

1914 – 1956

Capital

Rabat

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Includes

French Protectorate, Morocco

See also

Morocco (French Post Offices)

Main Article

Includes

Arad (French Occupation);

Castelrosso (French Occupation);

Cilicia (French Occupation);

Free French Forces in the Levant;

Korce (Koritza);

Memel (French Administration);

Syria (French Occupation)

See also

Fezzan

Dates

1892 – 1956

Capital

Papeete (Tahiti)

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

Includes

Tahiti

See also

French Polynesia

Dates

1958 –

Capital

Papeete (Tahiti)

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

See also

French Oceanic Settlements;

Tahiti

Main Article

Includes

China (French Post Offices);

Ethiopia (French Post Offices);

Japan (French Post Offices);

Madagascar (French Post Offices);

Majunga (French Post Office);

Morocco (French Post Offices);

Tangier (French Post Office);

Tientsin (French Post Office);

Zanzibar (French Post Office)

See also

Crete (French Post Offices);

Egypt (French Post Offices);

French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

Dates

1885 – 1923

Currency

French and Turkish both used

Main Article

Includes

Beirut (French Post Office);

Dedêagatz (French Post Office);

Kavalla (French Post Office);

Port Lagos (French Post Office);

Vathy (French Post Office)

See also

French Post Offices Abroad;

Crete (French Post Offices);

Egypt (French Post Offices)

Dates

1914 – 1915

Capital

Rabat

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Refer

French Morocco

Dates

1902 – 1967

Capital

Djibouti

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

See also

Djibouti;

French Territory of Afars & Issas

Dates

1894 – 1944

Capital

Bamako

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

Includes

Senegambia & Niger;

Upper Senegal & Niger

See also

French West Africa;

Mali Federation;

Mali Republic

Dates

1955 –

Capital

Port-aux-Francais

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

Postage stamps and postal history of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories

Dates

1967 – 1977

Capital

Djibouti

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

See also

Djibouti;

French Somali Coast

Dates

1944 – 1959

Capital

Dakar

Currency

100 centimes = 1 franc

Main Article

Includes

Dakar–Abidjan

See also

Dahomey;

French Guinea;

French Soudan;

Ivory Coast;

Mauritania;

Niger;

Senegal;

Upper Volta

Dates

1945 – 1946

Currency

100 pfennige = 1 mark

Refer

Germany (Allied Occupation)

Refer

Tonga

Dates

1964 – 1972

Currency

(1964) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee

(1967) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal

Refer

Trucial States

Refer

Tuvalu

Dates

1892 – 1905

Capital

Funchal

Currency

1000 reis = 1 milreis

Main Article

See also

Madeira

• Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
• Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
• Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
• XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960

• AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
• Encyclopaedia of Postal History