Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil the "slanted numeral" series. Subsequent stamps were in a similar format until the first pictorial stamps were issued in 1866 depicting Emperor Dom Pedro II In 1866 the emperor was represented on all issues until 1884, first with a black beard. For many years stamps from Brazil had Brasil Correio displayed on them. However today the trend is to just have the country name and year, e.g. Brasil 2000. Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It was a colony of Portugal from 1500 until 1815. Brazil was the second country
Postage stamps of Italian Libya in the late 1930s, that show Libyan landscape and city views. There were even special stamps for "servizi" (packs, etc.). All the stamps of Italian Libya have bilingual inscriptions (Italian and Arabic) for the denominations, even during World War II when Germans of the "Afrika Korps" complained about the Arabic. Postage stamps of Italian Libya Postage stamps of Italian Libya were stamps issued by the Kingdom of Italy for use in Italian Libya, between 1912 and 1943. The area now comprising Libya was originally a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire which was ceded to Italy in 1912 and became an