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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has issued several Eid postage stamps, across several years—starting in 2001—honoring "two of the most important festivals in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha." Eid stamps were released in 2001–2002, 2006–2009, 2011, and 2013.
The United States Postal Service issued a 34-cent stamp on the 1 September 2001 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention in Des Plaines, Illinois. It features gold Arabic calligraphy on a lapis background that commemorates two of the most important Muslim festivals: Eid ul-Fitr , marking the end of the month-long fast of ...
e. Amin ul-Hasanat (1 February 1922 – 5 January 1960), better known as the Pir of Manki Sharif, was the son of Pir Abdul Rauf and an Islamic religious leader in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India (now Pakistan ). After joining the All-India Muslim League in 1945, he was noted for his campaign in the provincial referendum ...
Pakistan Postage Stamps 1975–76, Pakistan Post Office, Government of Pakistan, Karachi. Collecting Pakistan Postage Stamps 1992–1993 , Postal Services Corporation, Islamabad. Leaflets issued with each stamp issue.
In January 2013, The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee released a commemorative postage stamp on the Silk Letter Movement, to commemorate the sacrifices these groups made for the Indian independence movement. Indian author and historian Ela Mishra wrote Reshmi Rumaal Sharyantra: Ek Muslim Kraantikari Aandoloan. Further reading
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ( pronunciation ⓘ ), Marathi pronunciation: [ʋinaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ]; 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian politician, activist and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. [2] [3] [4] He was a leading figure in the Hindu ...
The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age , during the rule of Sargon of Akkad , and successive empires have established and operated a ...
The stamps are in the form of small sheets, consisting of 8 stamps in total. The stamps include the Tashkent International Business Center, the Senate building, the Oliy Majlis building, the Turkiston Palace, the Temuriylar History State Museum, the Hazrati Imam complex, the Qatagʻon Martyrs Memorial Museum, the Baroqxon madrasa and a fragment ...
The last stamps bearing her name were issued in 1902 with inscription: "H.H. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam". (The state postal service of Bhopal issued its own postage stamps until 1949; from the second issue of stamps in 1908 official stamps were issued until 1945 and these had the inscriptions "Bhopal State" or "Bhopal Govt."
An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...