Compendium of postage stamp issuers (D) explained

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.[1]

    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.[2]

    Dates : 1913 only
  • Currency : 100 lepta = 1 drachma
    • Refer : Thrace
    See also : Greek Occupation Issues;
  • Gumultsina;
  • Western Thrace;
  • Western Thrace (Greek Occupation)

    Democratic Federation of Yugoslavia

    Refer : Yugoslavia (Democratic Federation)

    Denikin Government

    Dates : 1919 – 1920
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Refer : Russian Civil War Issues
    Dates : 1851 –
  • Capital : Copenhagen
  • Currency : (1851) 96 Danish: rigsbank skilling (RBS)= 1 rigsdaler
  • (1875) 100 ore = 1 krone

    Deutsche Besetzung Zara

    Refer : Dalmatia (German Occupation)

    Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)

    Refer : East Germany

    Deutsche Militarverwaltung Kotor

    Refer : Dalmatia (German Occupation)

    Deutsche Post

    Refer : East Germany

    Dhar

    Dates : 1897 – 1898
  • Currency : 4 pies = 1 anna
    • Refer : Indian Native States

    Diego – Suarez

    Dates : 1890 – 1896
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : Madagascar & Dependencies

    Diu

    Refer : Portuguese India

    Djibouti

    Dates : 1977 –
  • Capital : Djibouti
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti
    Includes : Djibouti (French Colony);
  • Obock
    See also : French Somali Coast;
  • French Territory of Afars & Issas

    Djibouti (French Colony)

    Dates : 1893 – 1902
  • Capital : Djibouti
  • Currency : 100 centimes = 1 franc
    • Refer : Djibouti

    Dobruja (Bulgarian Occupation)

    Dates : 1916 only
  • Currency : 100 stotinki (стотинки) = 1 lev (лев)
    • Refer : Bulgarian Territories

    Dodecanese Islands (British Occupation)

    Refer : Middle East Forces

    Dodecanese Islands (Greek Occupation)

    Dates : 1947 only
  • Currency : 100 lepta = 1 drachma
    • Refer : Greek Occupation Issues
    See also : Aegean Islands (Dodecanese);
  • Middle East Forces

    Dominica

    Dates : 1874 –
  • Capital : Roseau
  • Currency : (1874) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
  • (1949) 100 cents = 1 dollar
    Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Dominica

    Dominican Republic

    Dates : 1865 –
  • Capital : Santo Domingo
  • Currency : (1865) 8 reales = 1 peso
  • (1880) 100 centavos = 1 peso
  • (1883) 100 centimos = 1 franc
  • (1885) 100 centavos = 1 peso
    Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of the Dominican Republic

    Don Territory

    Dates : 1918 – 1920
  • Currency : 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
    • Refer : Russian Civil War Issues
    Dates : May 2014 –
  • Currency : 100 kopiykas = 1 Ukrainian hryvnia
    • Refer : Ukraine

    Dorpat (German Occupation)

    Dates : 1918 only
  • Currency : 100 pfennige = 1 Reichsmark
    • Refer : German Occupation Issues (WWI)

    Dresden

    Refer : South East Saxony (Russian Zone)

    Dronning Maud Land

    Refer : Norwegian Dependency

    Dubai

    Dates : 1963 – 1972
  • Capital : Dubai
  • Currency : (1963) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
  • (1966) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal
    Main Article :
    See also : British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia;
  • Trucial States;
  • United Arab Emirates (UAE)

    Duitsch Oost Afrika Belgische Bezetting

    Refer : German East Africa (Belgian Occupation)

    Dungarpur

    Dates : 1932 – 1948
  • Currency : 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
    • Refer : Indian Native States

    Durazzo (Italian Post Office)

    Dates : 1902 – 1916
  • Currency : 40 paras = 1 piastre

    • Dutch East Indies

    Dates : 1864 - 1950
    Main article : Postage stamps and postal history of the Dutch East Indies

    Duttia

    Dates : 1893 – 1899
  • Currency : 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
    • Refer : Indian Native States

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    Notes and References

    1. Gibbons,Europe and Colonies, p.307.
    2. Gibbons,Europe and Colonies, p.495.

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