Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Sp–Sz) 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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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 Krajinain 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 Egyptiangovernment 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 inscribedSIMI, 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)

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