Compendium of postage stamp issuers (D)
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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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Dahomey
Dates
1899 – 1944; 1960 – 1975
Capital
Porto Novo
Currency
100 centimes = 1 franc
Main Article
See also
Benin;
French West Africa
Dai Nippon
Refer
Japanese Naval Control Area
Dairen
Refer
Port Arthur & Dairen
Dakar – Abidjan
Dates
1959 only
Currency
100 centimes = 1 franc
Refer
French West Africa
Dalmatia (German Occupation)
Dates
1943 – 1945
Currency
100 centesimi = 1 lira
100 Pfennige = 1 Reichsmark
Refer
German Occupation Issues (WWII)
Dalmatia (Italian Occupation)
Dates
1919 – 1923
Currency
100 centesimi = 1 corona
Refer
Italian Occupation Issues
Damao
Refer
Portuguese India
Danish West Indies
Dates
1855 – 1917
Capital
Charlotte Amalie (St Thomas)
Currency
(1855) 100 cents = 1 dollar = 5 Danish kroner
(1905) 100 bit = 1 franc = 1 Danish krone
Main Article
Postage stamps and postal history of the Danish West Indies
Danubian Principalities
Refer
Moldo–Wallachia
Danzig
Dates
1920 – 1939
Currency
(1920) 100 pfennige = 1 mark
(1923) 100 pfennige = 1 Danzig gulden
Refer
Free City of Danzig
Main Article
Postage stamps and postal history of Free City of Danzig
See also
Danzig (Polish Post Office)
Danzig (Polish Post Office)
Dates
1924 – 1939
Currency
100 groszy = 1 zloty
Refer
Polish Post Abroad
Dardanelles (Russian Post Office)
Dates
1909 – 1910
Currency
40 paras = 1 piastre
Refer
Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Das Island
Refer
Abu Dhabi
Datia
Refer
Duttia
DDR
Refer
East Germany
Debrecen (Romanian Occupation)
Dates
1919 – 1920
Currency
100 filler = 1 korona
Refer
Romanian Post Abroad
Deccan
Refer
Hyderabad
Dédéagh
Overprint used on French stamps issued by a French post office in the Thracian city of Dedêagatz (now called Alexandroupoli) when it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Refer
Dedêagatz (French Post Offices)
Dedêagatz (French Post Office)
The office issued French stamps with overprint of Dédéagh (see above) when Thrace was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Dates
1893 – 1914
Currency
French and Turkish used concurrently
Refer
French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Dedêagatz (Greek Occupation)
When Greek forces invaded Thrace in 1913 during the Second Balkan War, Bulgarian stamps in use there were overprinted with a Greek inscription and currency value.
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