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Spain Dates 1850 – Capital Madrid Currency (1850) 8 = 1 real (1866) 80 = 100 centimos = 1 escudo (1867) 1000 milesimas = 100 centimos = 80 = 1 escudo (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Spain
See also Canary Islands
Spanish Guinea Dates 1902–1960 Capital Santa Isabel Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Equatorial Guinea
Includes Elobey, Annobon & Corisco; Fernando Poo; Rio Muni
Spanish Marianas Dates 1898–1899 Capital Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Refer Spanish Philippines
See also Mariana Islands
Spanish Morocco Dates 1914–1956 Capital Tetuan Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Main Article Needed
Spanish Philippines Dates 1854–1898 Capital Manila Currency (1854) 20 = 1 real; 8 reales = 1 peso (1864) 100 centimos = 1 peso (1871) 100 centimos = 1 escudo (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta (1876) 1000 milesimas = 100 centavos = 1 peso
Main Article Needed
Includes Spanish Marianas
Spanish Post Offices Abroad Main Article Needed
Includes Morocco (Spanish Post Offices); Tangier (Spanish Post Office); Tetuan (Spanish Post Office)
Spanish Sahara Dates 1924–1975 Capital El Aaiun Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Refer Spanish West Africa
Spanish West Africa
The general issue was for use in Ifni and Spanish Sahara.
Dates 1949–1951 Currency 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Main Article Needed
Includes Cape Juby; Ifni; La Aguëra; Rio de Oro; Spanish Sahara
Srba Hrvata Slovena Refer Yugoslavia
Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia) After Croatia recovered Krajina and Eastern Slavonia from the autonomous republic of Srpska Krajina in 1995, Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region). Stamps were issued soon afterwards.
Postal administration was transferred back to Croatia on 19 May 1997 and separate issues ceased at that time. Eastern Slavonia as a whole was incorporated back into the Republic of Croatia on 15 January 1998.
Dates 1995–1997 Capital Currency 100 paras = 1 dinar
Refer Croatia
See also Srpska Krajina (Croatia)
Sri Lanka Dates 1972 – Capital Colombo Currency 100 cents = 1 rupee
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Sri Lanka
See also Ceylon
Srpska Refer Bosnian Serb Republic
Srpska Krajina (Croatia) After Croatia declared itself independent of Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatian Serbs in Krajina, Western Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia proclaimed their allegiance to Yugoslavia and formed the Republic of Srpska Krajina under UN protection. Elections for a president and parliament were held in January 1994.
In 1995, the Republic of Croatia began to recover the Serb territories. Krajina and Western Slavonia were incorporated back into Croatia that year while Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region).
Stamps were issued soon after Srpska Krajina was proclaimed and continued until the Croatian recovery of Krajina. Later issues were made by Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (q.v.).
Dates 1993–1995 Capital Currency 100 paras = 1 dinar
Refer Croatia
See also Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)
Stadt Post Basel Refer Basle
Stampalia Refer Astypalaea
Stellaland Republic
A temporary Boer republic was established in Stellaland, which was the area surrounding Vryburg, on 26 July 1882. In 1885 it was annexed by Britain and incorporated into British Bechuanaland.
There was one local issue of six stamps on 1 February 1884.
Dates 1884–1885 Capital Vryburg Currency 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Refer Cape of Good Hope
See also Vryburg
Stockholm Dates 1856–1862 Currency (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler
Refer Sweden
Straits Settlements Dates 1867–1942 Capital Singapore Currency 100 cents = 1 dollar
Includes Labuan
Strasbourg Refer Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
Sudan Earliest issues were Egyptian stamps overprinted SOUDAN.
Dates 1897 – Capital Khartoum Currency 1000 milliemes = 100 piastres = 1 pound
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Sudan
Sudetenland Refer Asch (Sudetenland)
Suez Canal Company During the construction period 1859–69, the company ran a mail service that was taken over by the Egyptian government in 1868. Some special stamps (unofficial only) were issued in 1868.
Refer Egypt
Suidafrika Refer South Africa
Sumatra (Japanese Occupation) Dates 1943–1945 Currency 100 cents = 1 gulden
Refer Japanese Occupation Issues
Sungei Ujong Dates 1878–1895 Capital Seremban Currency 100 cents = 1 dollar
Main Article Needed
See also Malaysia
Suomi Refer Finland
Surinam/Suriname
Dates 1873 – Capital Paramaribo Currency 100 cents = 1 gulden
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Suriname
Sverige Refer Sweden
Swaziland Dates 1933 – Capital Mbabane Currency (1889) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound (1961) 100 cents = 1 rand (1974) 100 cents = 1 lilangeni (note: plural is emalangeni)
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Swaziland
Includes Swaziland (Provisional Government)
Swaziland (Provisional Government) Dates 1889–1894 Capital Mbabane Currency 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Refer Swaziland
Sweden Dates 1855 – Capital Stockholm Currency (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler (1875) 100 ore = 1 krona
Includes Stockholm
Swiss Cantonal Administration Refer Basle; Geneva; Switzerland; Zurich
Swiss Cantonal Issues Main Article Needed
Includes Basle; Geneva; Zurich
Swiss PTT Refer United Nations (UN)
Swiss Transitional Issues Refer Geneva; Switzerland; Zurich
Switzerland Dates 1850 – Capital Bern Currency (1850) 100 rappen = 1 franken (1862) 100 centimes = 1 franc
See also Swiss Cantonal Issues
Syme Italian colony in the Dodecanese which used the general EGEO issues and had its own stamps inscribed SIMI, the Italian (and Greek) name of the island.
Dates 1912–1932 Capital Simi Currency 100 centesimi = 1 lira
Refer Aegean Islands (Dodecanese)
Syria Dates 1924 – Capital Damascus Currency 100 centimes = 1 piastre
Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Syria
See also United Arab Republic (UAR)
Syria (French Occupation) Issues in both Egyptian and Syrian currency overprinted TEO or OMF.
Dates 1919–1924 Currency (1919) 40 paras = 10 milliemes = 1 piastre (1920) 100 centimes = 1 piastre
Refer French Occupation Issues
Szechwan Dates 1933 only Currency 100 cents = 1 dollar
Refer Chinese Provinces
Szeged
Dates 1919 only Capital Szeged Currency 100 filler = 1 korona
Main Article Needed
See also Hungary
Yugoslavia Overprints on Yugoslav stamps issued in Trieste.
Refer Trieste (Yugoslav Military Government)
References
Bibliography 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
External links
Encyclopaedia of Postal History