Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica entire eastern section of the country. An Italian post office was opened in Benghazi in 1901 and the stamps of Italy were overprinted for use in the post office. The Ottoman Empire ceded Cyrenaica to Italy in 1912. From 1923 to 1934 stamps were issued for Cyrenaica, which were used concurrently with those of Italian Libya. The first stamps of Cyrenaica were Italian stamps overprinted CIRENAICA issued on 24 October 1923 at the same time as those for Tripolitania. Semi-postal stamps inscribed "Cirenaica" were issued in 1926, and regular commemorative and definitive stamp issues continued until 1934 when Tripolitania, Cyrenaica
Sources of ancient Tamil history Tamil country and describes the riches of a 'Pandian Kingdom': One such port, Kudiramalai is mentioned in Greek as "Hippuros", a famous port of the Malabar country in Ceylon to the ancient Greeks. Pliny states that in the reign of the Emperor Claudius in 47 CE: An embassy of four envoys were sent from the island to Rome, including ambassador-in-chief Rasaiah from the King of Kudiramalai. To the Romans, the Kudiramalai envoys related particulars about their kingdom's inhabitants, including their common life expectancy of 100 years, their government, a council of thirty persons, free civil liberties and laws pertaining to