# 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

### 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

### 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

### 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