# Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Sp–Sz)

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.
See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.

## Spain
### Dates

    1850 –

### Capital

    Madrid

### Currency

    (1850) 8 cuartos [es] = 1 real
    (1866) 80 cuartos [es] = 100 centimos = 1 escudo
    (1867) 1000 milesimas = 100 centimos = 80 cuartos [es] = 1 escudo
    (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta
    (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro

### See also

    Canary Islands

## Spanish Guinea
### Dates

    1902–1960

### Capital

    Santa Isabel

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Includes

    Elobey, Annobon & Corisco;
    Fernando Poo;
    Rio Muni

## Spanish Marianas
### Dates

    1898–1899

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Refer

    Spanish Philippines

### See also

    Mariana Islands

## Spanish Morocco
### Dates

    1914–1956

### Capital

    Tetuan

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Main Article Needed
## Spanish Philippines
### Dates

    1854–1898

### Capital

    Manila

### Currency

    (1854) 20 cuartos [es] = 1 real; 8 reales = 1 peso
    (1864) 100 centimos = 1 peso
    (1871) 100 centimos = 1 escudo
    (1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta
    (1876) 1000 milesimas = 100 centavos = 1 peso

### Includes

    Spanish Marianas

## Spanish Post Offices Abroad
### Includes

    Morocco (Spanish Post Offices);
    Tangier (Spanish Post Office);
    Tetuan (Spanish Post Office)

## Spanish Sahara
### Dates

    1924–1975

### Capital

    El Aaiun

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Refer

    Spanish West Africa

## Spanish West Africa

The general issue was for use in Ifni and Spanish Sahara.

### Dates

    1949–1951

### Currency

    100 centimos = 1 peseta

### Includes

    Cape Juby;
    Ifni;
    La Aguëra;
    Rio de Oro;
    Spanish Sahara

## Srba Hrvata Slovena
### Refer

    Yugoslavia

## Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)

After Croatia recovered Krajina and Eastern Slavonia from the autonomous republic of Srpska Krajina in 1995, Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region). Stamps were issued soon afterwards.
Postal administration was transferred back to Croatia on 19 May 1997 and separate issues ceased at that time. Eastern Slavonia as a whole was incorporated back into the Republic of Croatia on 15 January 1998.

### Dates

    1995–1997

### Currency

    100 paras = 1 dinar

### Refer

    Croatia

### See also

    Srpska Krajina (Croatia)

## Sri Lanka
### Dates

    1972 –

### Capital

    Colombo

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 rupee

### See also

    Ceylon

## Srpska
### Refer

    Bosnian Serb Republic

## Srpska Krajina (Croatia)

After Croatia declared itself independent of Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatian Serbs in Krajina, Western Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia proclaimed their allegiance to Yugoslavia and formed the Republic of Srpska Krajina under UN protection. Elections for a president and parliament were held in January 1994.
In 1995, the Republic of Croatia began to recover the Serb territories. Krajina and Western Slavonia were incorporated back into Croatia that year while Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region).
Stamps were issued soon after Srpska Krajina was proclaimed and continued until the Croatian recovery of Krajina. Later issues were made by Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (q.v.).

### Dates

    1993–1995

### Currency

    100 paras = 1 dinar

### Refer

    Croatia

### See also

    Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)

## Stadt Post Basel
### Refer

    Basle

## Stampalia
### Refer

    Astypalaea

## Stellaland Republic

A temporary Boer republic was established in Stellaland, which was the area surrounding Vryburg, on 26 July 1882. In 1885 it was annexed by Britain and incorporated into British Bechuanaland.
There was one local issue of six stamps on 1 February 1884.

### Dates

    1884–1885

### Capital

    Vryburg

### Currency

    12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

### Refer

    Cape of Good Hope

### See also

    Vryburg

## Stockholm
### Dates

    1856–1862

### Currency

    (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler
    (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler

### Refer

    Sweden

## Straits Settlements
### Dates

    1867–1942

### Capital

    Singapore

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 dollar

### Includes

    Labuan

## Strasbourg
### Refer

    Council of Europe (Strasbourg)

## Sudan

Earliest issues were Egyptian stamps overprinted SOUDAN.

### Dates

    1897 –

### Capital

    Khartoum

### Currency

    1000 milliemes = 100 piastres = 1 pound

### Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Sudan
## Sudetenland
### Refer

    Asch (Sudetenland)

## Suez Canal Company

During the construction period 1859–69, the company ran a mail service that was taken over by the Egyptian government in 1868. Some special stamps (unofficial only) were issued in 1868.

### Refer

    Egypt

## Suidafrika
### Refer

    South Africa

## Sumatra (Japanese Occupation)
### Dates

    1943–1945

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 gulden

### Refer

    Japanese Occupation Issues

## Sungei Ujong
### Dates

    1878–1895

### Capital

    Seremban

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 dollar

### See also

    Malaysia

## Suomi
### Refer

    Finland

## Surinam/Suriname
### Dates

    1873 –

### Capital

    Paramaribo

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 gulden

### Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Suriname
## Sverige
### Refer

    Sweden

## Swaziland
### Dates

    1933 –

### Capital

    Mbabane

### Currency

    (1889) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
    (1961) 100 cents = 1 rand
    (1974) 100 cents = 1 lilangeni (note: plural is emalangeni)

### Includes

    Swaziland (Provisional Government)

## Swaziland (Provisional Government)
### Dates

    1889–1894

### Capital

    Mbabane

### Currency

    12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound

### Refer

    Swaziland

## Sweden
### Dates

    1855 –

### Capital

    Stockholm

### Currency

    (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler
    (1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler
    (1875) 100 ore = 1 krona

### Includes

    Stockholm

## Swiss Cantonal Administration
### Refer

    Basle;
    Geneva;
    Switzerland;
    Zurich

## Swiss Cantonal Issues
### Includes

    Basle;
    Geneva;
    Zurich

## Swiss PTT
### Refer

    United Nations (UN)

## Swiss Transitional Issues
### Refer

    Geneva;
    Switzerland;
    Zurich

## Switzerland
### Dates

    1850 –

### Capital

    Bern

### Currency

    (1850) 100 rappen = 1 franken
    (1862) 100 centimes = 1 franc

### See also

    Swiss Cantonal Issues

## Syme

Italian colony in the Dodecanese which used the general EGEO issues and had its own stamps inscribed SIMI, the Italian (and Greek) name of the island.

### Dates

    1912–1932

### Capital

    Simi

### Currency

    100 centesimi = 1 lira

### Refer

    Aegean Islands (Dodecanese)

## Syria
### Dates

    1924 –

### Capital

    Damascus

### Currency

    100 centimes = 1 piastre

### See also

    United Arab Republic (UAR)

## Syria (French Occupation)

Issues in both Egyptian and Syrian currency overprinted TEO or OMF.

### Dates

    1919–1924

### Currency

    (1919) 40 paras = 10 milliemes = 1 piastre
    (1920) 100 centimes = 1 piastre

### Refer

    French Occupation Issues

## Szechwan
### Dates

    1933 only

### Currency

    100 cents = 1 dollar

### Refer

    Chinese Provinces

## Szeged
### Dates

    1919 only

### Capital

    Szeged

### Currency

    100 filler = 1 korona

### See also

    Hungary

## Yugoslavia

Overprints on Yugoslav stamps issued in Trieste.

### Refer

    Trieste (Yugoslav Military Government)