Until just a couple of months ago, I did not know that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), or Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture as it is called in French, has issued its own postage stamps since 1961. These are valid for postage only on mail posted from UNESCO Headquarters or Maison de l’UNESCO at number … Continue reading UNESCO and the World Heritage Site at Kotor
Mukalla (المكلا — Al Mukallā) is a seaport and the capital city of Yemen’s Hadhramaut Governorate. The city is located in the southern part of Arabia on the Gulf of Aden, on the shores of the Arabian Sea. Mukalla is 300 miles (480 kilometers) east of Aden and is the most important port in the Hadhramaut, the largest governorate in Yemen. It was founded in … Continue reading Mukalla
The Qu’aiti State in Hadhramaut (الدولة القعيطية الحضرمية) is the same place as yesterday’s subject, the Qu’aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla (سلطنة الشحر والمكلاا), located in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula in what is now Yemen. The name was changed in 1955 and it continued being administered as part of Aden’s Eastern Protectorate. Covering approximately 70,000 square miles, Qu’aiti was the third … Continue reading Qu’aiti State in Hadhramaut #32 (1955)
The Qu’aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla (سلطنة الشحر والمكلاا — al-Salṭanah al-Qu‘ayṭīyah fī ash-Shiḥr wal-Mukallā in Arabic), was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Covering 73,359 square miles (190,000 km²), roughly the size of England and Wales, Qu’aiti was the third largest kingdom in Arabia after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of … Continue reading Qu’aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla #13 (1946)
The Kathiri State of Seiyun in Hadhramaut (السلطنة الكثيرية – سيؤن – حضرموت — al-Salṭanah al-Kathīrīyah Sayʾūn Ḥaḍramawt) was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman. From 1940, Kathiri was administered as part of the Eastern Protectorate of the Aden Protectorate (محمية عدن — Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan), a British protectorate … Continue reading Kathiri State of Seiyun #13 (1946)
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