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CYPRUS / CHYPRE


Department of Postal Services
Postal Services and International Relations Division
M. George Crassides
Head, Postal Operations Service
CY-1900 NICOSIA
CHYPRE

Téléphone (+357) 280 57 50
Téléfax (+357) 266 11 33
From the UPU

PostEurop membership data for Cyprus
Correspondence:
Department of Postal Services
1900 Nicosia
Cyprus
Mr George Crassides
Head of Postal Operations Service
Tel: +357.2302145
Fax: +357.2304154
Language of correspondence: English

Cyprus
Cyrus has a recorded history of more than 4,000 years. Rulers have included Greeks, Ptolemies, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Franks, Venetians, Turks (1571-1878), and British. The British Crown Colony was established in 1925. Independence was granted in 1960. The Turks invaded in 1974 and occupied more than a third of the island. The turkish community declared itself independent as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1984.

Stamps and Philatelic Service
Department of Postal Services
CY 1900, Nicosia, Cyprus


Cyprus
Middle East, island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey.
Independence: 16 August 1960 (from UK)
Note: the Turkish Cypriot area refers to itself as the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRNC) and the area proclaimed self-rule on 13 February 1975 from Republic of Cyprus


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Cyprus Stamp New Issues News

Cyprus - FIP DATA

Cyprus Philatelic Society
P. O. Box 1151
Nicosia
Cyprus
Phone: 00375 2 459 722
Fax: 00375 2 369 236

History of Cyprus Stamps
"Period before 1878

The postal history of Cyprus begins with the Venetians. They were the first to organise postal communications. Letters from dignitaries of the time, from merchants, from Embassies and Consulates were taken by their own ships to all towns of the Mediterranean. The first known letter sent from Famagusta to Constantinople bears the date 17/8/1353. ...

Philatelic Museums & Libraries data - Cyprus
Nicosia
P&T Museum, PTT Administration Building,
Nicosia
Contents unknown.

Cyprus Postal Services - postal authority - English
links to Postal Service and Philatelic Services as well as the country's Home Page.

Postage rates - from Mark Sietz

see also: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ------------>



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