Postage stamps and postal history of Georgia

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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Georgia.

Georgia is in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 km² and its population is 4.385 million.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Georgia was annexed by the

The first stamps of Georgia as the Democratic Republic of Georgia were issued on 26 May 1919. A further series was issued in 1921.^[2][3]

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  1919 St. George Series
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  1919 St. George Series
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  1919 St. George Series
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  1919 St. George Series
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  1919 St. George Series

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  1920 Queen Thamar series
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  1920 Queen Thamar series
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  1920 Queen Thamar series

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

In January and February 1922 a series of five stamps were issued for Georgia's membership as a Soviet Republic.^[2]

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  A 1922 stamp

Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

In March 1922 until September 1923 overprinted stamps of The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic were used. From 1 October 1923 general issues of the Transcaucasian Federation were used.^[2]

Soviet stamps

From 1924 until 1993 stamps of the Soviet Union were used in Georgia following the absorption of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic into the U.S.S.R.

Independence

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Georgia became independent again in April 1991 and issued stamps in its own name from 31 July 1993.^[2] Unlike other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia did not overprint Soviet stamps to meet their postal needs after independence,^[4] although a number of overprints were carried out on Georgian stamps in 1994.^[2]

Abkhazia

Stamps have been produced purporting to be from the

• Postage stamps of Batum under British occupation

References

Further reading

• Ashford, Peter T. Georgia: Postal Cancellations 1918-1923. Ashton: P. Ashford, 1991 158p.
• Barefoot, John & Andrew Hall. Georgia. York: Barefoot Investments, 1983
  ISBN 090684519X
  66p. Series Title: European Philately; 11.
• Hughes, William E. and P.T. Ashford. The Postage Stamps of Georgia (Transcaucasia); The Stamps of St. George. Bristol: P. Ashford, in association with the British Society of Russian Philately, 1951 46p.

• Philately of the former Soviet Union.

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