page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica
section_title: Italian post office in Benghazi
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica / Italian post office in Benghazi
caption_attribution_description: English: Semi-Postal stamp 1930: Italian Agricultural Institute in Cyrenaica .
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica, now part of Libya.
  Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state of the country in the pre-1963 administrative system. What used to be Cyrenaica in the old system is now divided up into several "shabiyat". In addition to the coastal region, i.e. historical Cyrenaica, the former province, during the Kingdom and the Italian era extended to the south to include the entire eastern section of the country.
context_section_description: An Italian post office was opened in Benghazi in 1901 and the stamps of Italy were overprinted for use in the post office.
caption: A 1930 semi-postal stamp of Cyrenaica.
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