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Between 1851 and 1860, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, an independent Italian state until 1859 when it joined the United Provinces of Central Italy, produced two postage stamp issues which are among the most prized classic stamp issues of the world, and include the most valuable Italian stamp.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Tuscany

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Tuscany used the stamps of Sardinia, and in 1862, Italy. Tuscany's postage stamps are among the most highly prized and collected classic stamps and have...

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Postage stamps and postal history of Italy

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horses") of Sardinia was an early private mail service, notable for the introduction of prepaid stamped lettersheets in 1819. The first postage stamps in Italy...

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Tuscany

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miles) and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (Firenze). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic...

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Postage stamps and postal history of Greece

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issuing of postage stamps until 1970. It was then succeeded by the Hellenic Post S.A. (abbreviated ΕΛΤΑ), which remains Greece's official postal provider...

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Postage stamps and postal history of Vatican City

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post office has operated its own postal service and issued its own postage stamps since 1929. The postal history of Vatican City begins shortly after...

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Duchy of Rome

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centre of Byzantine opposition to the Lombards, and the Duchy of Rome, which embraced the lands of Southern Etruria north of the Tiber and of Latium to...

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Capture of Rome

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(2020). A History of International Law in Italy. Oxford University Press. Schapiro, J. Salwyn, PhD, Modern and Contemporary European History (1815–1921)...

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Italian Empire

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center of an internal sea, without an open free access to the ocean, contributed to this purely Mediterranean policy. Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, made...

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Papal States

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sovereign: the Duchy of Rome, Ravenna, the Duchy of the Pentapolis, parts of the Duchy of Benevento, Tuscany, Corsica, Lombardy, and a number of Italian cities...

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Italian occupation of Corsica

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mainland (Livorno and Piombino) and to the island of Elba, between Corsica and Tuscany. Until 24 September, Luftwaffe transport aircraft operated from Ghisonaccia...

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Patrimony of Saint Peter

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States of the Church by new donations: Capua and a few other frontier cities of the Duchy of Benevento, besides several cities in Lombardy, Tuscany, Populonia...

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Florence Nightingale

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years, from 1994 to 2014. Nightingale has appeared on international postage stamps, including, the UK, Alderney, Australia, Belgium, Dominica, Hungary...

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Vandal Kingdom

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New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19515-954-7. Heather, Peter (2007), 'Christianity and the...

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Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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of modern Italy. Administratively, Naples and Sicily remained separate units; in 1858 the Neapolitan Postal Service issued her first postage stamps;...

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Bank of Italy

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used "L." Italian postage stamps mostly used the word lire in full but some (such as the 1975 monuments series) used "L." The name of the currency could...

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Pope

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on the temporal power of the pope over governments and Innocent III's Letter to the prefect Acerbius and the nobles of Tuscany Archived 14 August 2014...

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British Library

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range of disciplines. The collections include postage and revenue stamps, postal stationery, essays, proofs, covers and entries, "cinderella stamp" material...

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Timeline of Brazilian history

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This is a timeline of Brazilian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Brazil and its predecessor states...

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Antonio Meucci

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Purposes" 1881 Process for making postage and revenue stamps. 1883 U.S. patent 279,492 for "Plastic Paste," as hard and tenacious to be suitable for billiard...

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Law of Guarantees

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taxation, and the Papal government was to have free use of the Italian railway, postal, and telegraph systems. The church was guaranteed full freedom of self-government...

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1780s

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inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (d. 1853) Henri de Rigny, commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence...

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