Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.
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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.