page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Cyprus
section_title: Ottoman and Austrian postal services
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Cyprus / Ottoman and Austrian postal services
caption_attribution_description: English: Cyprus 1881 half piastre Emerald Green stamp SG11 SC11.
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cyprus. The country's postal history is intricately linked to the island's political past.
context_section_description: Postal services existed during the Venetian and Ottoman periods of occupation. There was an Ottoman postal service in Nicosia from 1871 where mail was hand stamped "KIBRIS". A few Turkish Duloz stamps are known used on fragments or as singles (no complete cover has yet been found). Stamps of the Austrian post offices in the Turkish empire were used at Larnaca from 1864 with values up to 25 kreuzer.
caption: An 1881 half piastre stamp of Cyprus from the first series designed solely for the island.
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