Compendium of postage stamp issuers (D)

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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Dahomey

 * Dates :	1899 – 1944; 1960 – 1975
 * Capital :	Porto Novo
 * Currency : 	100 centimes = 1 franc


 * Main Article :


 * See also :	Benin;
 * French West Africa

Dai Nippon

 * Refer : 	Japanese Naval Control Area

Dairen

 * Refer :	Port Arthur & Dairen

Dakar – Abidjan

 * Dates :       1959 only
 * Currency :    100 centimes = 1 franc


 * Refer :       French West Africa

Dalmatia (German Occupation)

 * Dates :	1943 – 1945
 * Currency :	100 centesimi = 1 lira
 * 100 Pfennige = 1 Reichsmark


 * Refer :	German Occupation Issues (WWII)

Dalmatia (Italian Occupation)

 * Dates :	1919 – 1923
 * Currency :	100 centesimi = 1 corona


 * Refer :	Italian Occupation Issues

Damao

 * Refer :	Portuguese India

Danish West Indies

 * Dates :	1855 – 1917
 * Capital :	Charlotte Amalie (St Thomas)
 * Currency :	(1855) 100 cents = 1 dollar = 5 Danish kroner
 * (1905) 100 bit = 1 franc = 1 Danish krone


 * Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of the Danish West Indies

Danubian Principalities

 * Refer :	Moldo–Wallachia

Danzig

 * Dates :	1920 – 1939
 * Currency :	(1920) 100 pfennige = 1 mark
 * (1923) 100 pfennige = 1 Danzig gulden


 * Refer : Free City of Danzig


 * Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of Free City of Danzig


 * See also :	Danzig (Polish Post Office)

Danzig (Polish Post Office)

 * Dates :	1924 – 1939
 * Currency :	100 groszy = 1 zloty


 * Refer :	Polish Post Abroad

Dardanelles (Russian Post Office)

 * Dates :	1909 – 1910
 * Currency :	40 paras = 1 piastre


 * Refer :	Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

Das Island

 * Refer :	Abu Dhabi

Datia

 * Refer :	Duttia

DDR

 * Refer :	East Germany

Debrecen (Romanian Occupation)

 * Dates :	1919 – 1920
 * Currency :	100 filler = 1 korona


 * Refer :	Romanian Post Abroad

Deccan

 * Refer :	Hyderabad

Dédéagh
Overprint used on French stamps issued by a French post office in the Thracian city of Dedêagatz (now called Alexandroupoli) when it was part of the Ottoman Empire.


 * Refer :	Dedêagatz (French Post Offices)

Dedêagatz (French Post Office)
The office issued French stamps with overprint of Dédéagh (see above) when Thrace was part of the Ottoman Empire.


 * Dates :	1893 – 1914
 * Currency : 	French and Turkish used concurrently


 * Refer :	French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

Dedêagatz (Greek Occupation)
When Greek forces invaded Thrace in 1913 during the Second Balkan War, Bulgarian stamps in use there were overprinted with a Greek inscription and currency value.


 * Dates :	1913 only
 * Currency : 	100 lepta = 1 drachma


 * Refer :	Thrace


 * See also :	Greek Occupation Issues;
 * Gumultsina;
 * Western Thrace;
 * Western Thrace (Greek Occupation)

Democratic Federation of Yugoslavia

 * Refer :	Yugoslavia (Democratic Federation)

Denikin Government

 * Dates :	1919 – 1920
 * Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble


 * Refer :	Russian Civil War Issues

Denmark

 * Dates :	1851 –
 * Capital :	Copenhagen
 * Currency :	(1851) 96 rigsbank skilling (RBS)= 1 rigsdaler
 * (1875) 100 ore = 1 krone

Deutsche Besetzung Zara

 * Refer :	Dalmatia (German Occupation)

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)

 * Refer :	East Germany

Deutsche Militarverwaltung Kotor

 * Refer :	Dalmatia (German Occupation)

Deutsche Post

 * Refer :	East Germany

Dhar

 * Dates :	1897 – 1898
 * Currency :	4 pies = 1 anna


 * Refer :	Indian Native States

Diego – Suarez

 * Dates :	1890 – 1896
 * Currency :	100 centimes = 1 franc


 * Refer :	Madagascar & Dependencies

Diu

 * Refer :	Portuguese India

Djibouti

 * Dates :	1977 –
 * Capital :	Djibouti
 * Currency : 	100 centimes = 1 franc


 * Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Djibouti


 * Includes :	Djibouti (French Colony);
 * Obock


 * See also :	French Somali Coast;
 * French Territory of Afars & Issas

Djibouti (French Colony)

 * Dates :	1893 – 1902
 * Capital :	Djibouti
 * Currency : 	100 centimes = 1 franc


 * Refer :	Djibouti

Dobruja (Bulgarian Occupation)

 * Dates :	1916 only
 * Currency :	100 stotinki (стотинки) = 1 lev (лев)


 * Refer :	Bulgarian Territories

Dodecanese Islands (British Occupation)

 * Refer :	Middle East Forces

Dodecanese Islands (Greek Occupation)

 * Dates :	1947 only
 * Currency :	100 lepta = 1 drachma


 * Refer :	Greek Occupation Issues


 * See also :	Aegean Islands (Dodecanese);
 * Middle East Forces

Dominica

 * Dates :	1874 –
 * Capital :	Roseau
 * Currency : 	(1874) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
 * (1949) 100 cents = 1 dollar


 * Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Dominica

Dominican Republic

 * Dates :	1865 –
 * Capital :	Santo Domingo
 * Currency :	(1865) 8 reales = 1 peso
 * (1880) 100 centavos = 1 peso
 * (1883) 100 centimos = 1 franc
 * (1885) 100 centavos = 1 peso


 * Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of the Dominican Republic

Don Territory

 * Dates :	1918 – 1920
 * Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble


 * Refer :	Russian Civil War Issues

Donetsk People's Republic

 * Dates :	May 2014 –
 * Currency :	100 kopiykas = 1 Ukrainian hryvnia


 * Refer :	Ukraine

Dorpat (German Occupation)

 * Dates :	1918 only
 * Currency :	100 pfennige = 1 Reichsmark


 * Refer :	German Occupation Issues (WWI)

Dresden

 * Refer :	South East Saxony (Russian Zone)

Dronning Maud Land

 * Refer :	Norwegian Dependency

Dubai

 * Dates :	1963 – 1972
 * Capital :	Dubai
 * Currency : 	(1963) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
 * (1966) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal


 * Main Article :


 * See also :	British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia;
 * Trucial States;
 * United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Duitsch Oost Afrika Belgische Bezetting

 * Refer :	German East Africa (Belgian Occupation)

Dungarpur

 * Dates :	1932 – 1948
 * Currency :	12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee


 * Refer :	Indian Native States

Durazzo (Italian Post Office)

 * Dates :	1902 – 1916
 * Currency :	40 paras = 1 piastre


 * Refer :	Italian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire

Dutch East Indies

 * Dates : 1864 - 1950


 * Main article : Postage stamps and postal history of the Dutch East Indies

Duttia

 * Dates :	1893 – 1899
 * Currency :	12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee


 * Refer :	Indian Native States