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.
Rab
;Refer :	Arbe Rajasthan
;Dates :	1948 – 1950 ;Currency :	12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
;Refer :	Indian Native States Rajnandgaon
;Refer :	Nandgaon Rajpipla
;Dates :	1880 – 1886 ;Currency :	12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
;Refer :	Indian Native States Rarotonga
;Dates :	1919 – 1932, 2011- ;Currency :	(1919) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(2011) 100 cents = 1 dollar
;Refer :	Cook Islands Ras Al Khaima
Stamps issued 1967–72 were non-postal and are unrecognised.
;Dates :	1964 – 1966 ;Currency :	(1964) 100 naye paise = 1 rupee
(1966) 100 dirhams = 1 riyal
;Refer :	Trucial States Redonda
;Refer :	Antigua Republic of China
;Refer :	Chinese Nationalist Republic (Taiwan);
Taiwan
Republic of Ireland
;Dates :	1922 – ;Capital :	Dublin ;Currency :	(1922) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1971) 100 pence = 1 punt
(2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
;Main Article Needed : Republic of Maldives
;Refer :	Maldive Islands Republika Srpska
;Refer :	Bosnian Serb Republic Republique Libanaise
;Refer :	Lebanon Rethymnon (Russian Post Office)
Russia was one of the powers which occupied Crete in 1898.
It had a post office at Rethymnon within its own sphere of administration.
Four types were issued, overprinted RETHYMNO, and a total of 37 stamps.
;Refer :	Crete (Russian Post Offices) Reunion
;Dates :	1885 – 1974 ;Capital :	Saint-Denis ;Currency :	100 centimes = 1 franc
;Main Article Needed : Rheinland-Pfalz
;Refer :	Rhineland-Palatinate (French Zone) Rhineland-Palatinate (French Zone)
;Dates :	1947 – 1949 ;Capital :	Mainz ;Currency :	100 pfennige = 1 mark
;Refer :	Germany (Allied Occupation) Rhodes
Italian colony in the Dodecanese which used the general EGEO issues and had its own stamps inscribed RODI, the Italian name of the island.
;Dates :	1912 – 1935 ;Capital :	Rodhos ;Currency :	100 centesimi = 1 lira
;Refer :	Aegean Islands (Dodecanese) Rhodesia
;Dates :	1965 – 1980 ;Capital :	Salisbury ;Currency :	(1965) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1969) 100 cents = 1 dollar
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Rhodesia (British Colonial Issues);
Southern Rhodesia
;See also :	Zimbabwe Rhodesia (British Colonial Issues)
;Dates :	1909 – 1924 ;Capital :	Salisbury ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Refer :	Rhodesia Rhodesia & Nyasaland
;Dates :	1954 – 1964 ;Capital :	Salisbury ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Main Article Needed : Riau-Lingga Archipelago
;Dates :	1954 – 1965 ;Capital :	Tandjungpinang ;Currency :	100 sen = 1 rupiah
;Main Article Needed :
;See also :	Indonesia Rijeka
;Refer :	Fiume (Yugoslav Occupation) Rio de Oro
;Dates :	1905 – 1924 ;Capital :	Villa Cisneros ;Currency :	100 centimos = 1 peseta
;Refer :	Spanish West Africa Rio Muni
;Dates :	1960 – 1968 ;Capital :	Bata ;Currency :	100 centimos = 1 peseta
;Refer :	Spanish Guinea Rizeh (Russian Post Office)
;Dates :	1909 – 1910 ;Currency :	40 paras = 1 piastre
;Refer :	Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire Rodi
;Refer :	Rhodes Romagna
;Dates :	1859 – 1860 ;Capital :	Bologna ;Currency :	100 bajocchi = 1 scudo
;Refer :	Italian States Roman States
;Refer :	Papal States [[Postage stamps and postal history of Romania|Romania]]
;Dates :	1865 – ;Capital :	Bucharest ;Currency :	(1865) 40 parale = 1 piastre
(1867) 100 bani = 1 leu
;Includes :	Moldavia;
Moldo–Wallachia
Romania (Austrian Occupation)
;Dates :	1917 – 1918 ;Currency :	100 bani = 1 leu
;Refer :	Austro–Hungarian Military Post Romania (Bulgarian Occupation)
;Refer :	Dobruja (Bulgarian Occupation) Romania (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1917 – 1918 ;Currency :	100 bani = 1 leu
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (WW1) Romanian Post Abroad
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Banat Bacska (Romanian Occupation);
Constantinople (Romanian Post Office);
Debrecen (Romanian Occupation);
Hungary (Romanian Occupation);
Romanian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire;
Temesvar (Romanian Occupation);
Transylvania (Romanian Occupation)
Romanian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
;Dates :	1896 – 1919 ;Currency :	(1896) 40 paras = 1 piastre
(1919) 100 bani = 1 leu
;Refer :	Romanian Post Abroad ROPiT
Abbreviation of Russkoe Obshchestvo Parokhudstva i Torgovl (Р.О.П.и.Т. - Русское общество пароходства и торговли), meaning Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company.
The Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire were run by R.O.P.i.T.
General issues were in use throughout the period but several local overprints were introduced in 1909.
This included the offices at Mytilene, Salonika and Mount Athos.
Other Russian POs in Greece were at Kandia, Volos (Thessaly), Port Lagos (Thrace), Khios and Rhodes.
;Refer :	Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
;Dates : 1863 – 1914 ;Currency : (1863) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble, (1900) 40 paras = 1 piastre [[Postage stamps and postal history of the Ross Dependency|Ross Dependency]]
;Dates :	1957 – ;Capital :	Scott Base ;Currency :	(1957) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1968) 100 cents = 1 dollar
Rouad Island
;Refer :	Ile Rouad Ruanda-Urundi
;Dates :	1924 – 1962 ;Capital :	Usumbura ;Currency :	100 centimes = 1 franc
;Main Article Needed :
;See also :	Belgian Congo;
Burundi;
Rwanda
Rumania
;Refer :	Romania [[Postage stamps and postal history of Russia|Russia]]
Stamps issued are cat.
nos 63–11 onwards of Russia.
;Dates :	1992 – ;Capital :	Moscow ;Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Russia (pre–Soviet)
;See also :	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Russia (pre-Soviet)
Stamps issued were cat.
nos 1–324 of Russia.
;Dates :	1858 – 1923 ;Capital :	Moscow ;Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
;Refer :	Russia Russia (German Occupation)
;Refer :	Ostland;
Ukraine (German Occupation)
Russian Army Issues
;Refer :	North Western Army;
Northern Army;
Western Army
Russian Civil War Issues
The Russian Civil War (25 October 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces.
Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies.
The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919.
The remains of the White forces commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel were beaten in the Crimea and were evacuated in the autumn of 1920.
Stamps were issued by various Russian armies and other parties.
;Includes :	Amur Province;
Ataman Semyonov Regime (Transbaikal);
Crimea;
Denikin Government;
Don Territory;
Far Eastern Republic;
Kolchak Government (Siberia);
Kuban Territory;
North Ingermanland;
North Western Army;
Northern Army;
Priamur & Maritime Provinces;
Siberia (Czechoslovak Army);
Transbaikal Province;
Western Army;
Wrangel Government
;See also :	USSR Issues for the Far East Russian Occupation Issues
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	North Korea (Russian Occupation);
South Lithuania (Russian Occupation)
Russian Post Offices Abroad
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	China (Russian Post Offices);
Crete (Russian Post Offices)
Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Russia had many post offices in the Turkish Empire which were run by ROPiT.
General issues were in use throughout the period but several local overprints were introduced in 1909.
This included the offices at Mytilene, Salonika and Mount Athos.
Other Russian POs in Greece were at Kandia, Volos (Thessaly), Port Lagos (Thrace), Khios and Rhodes.
;Dates :	1863 – 1914 ;Currency :	(1863) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
(1900) 40 paras = 1 piastre
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Beirut (Russian Post Office);
Constantinople (Russian Post Office);
Dardanelles (Russian Post Offices);
Jaffa (Russian Post Office);
Jerusalem (Russian Post Office);
Kerrasunde (Russian Post Office);
Mount Athos (Russian Post Office);
Mytilene (Russian Post Office);
Rizeh (Russian Post Office);
Salonika (Russian Post Office);
Smyrne (Russian Post Office);
Trebizonde (Russian Post Office)
Russian Zone (General Issues)
;Dates :	1948 – 1949 ;Capital :	East Berlin ;Currency :	100 pfennige = 1 mark
;Refer :	Germany (Allied Occupation) Russkoe Obshchestvo Parokhudstva i Torgovll
;Refer :	ROPiT Rustenburg
;Dates :	1900 – 1902 ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Refer :	Transvaal Rwanda
;Dates :	1962 – ;Capital :	Kigali ;Currency :	100 centimes = 1 franc
;Main Article Needed :
;See also :	Ruanda-Urundi Ryukyu Islands
;Dates :	1948 – 1972 ;Capital :	Naha ;Currency :	(1948) 100 sen = 1 yen
(1958) 100 cents = 1 dollar
;Main Article Needed : References
Bibliography
Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960
External links
AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms
Encyclopaedia of Postal History
In Russian: Information Center "Russia and World" (2,200+ articles & references).
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