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.
La Agüera
Lagouira aka La Gouera is a city on the Atlantic coast of Africa at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula.
It was called La Agüera when it came into existence in 1920 as a short-lived Spanish colonial possession.
It was originally a Spanish air base.
The stamps were other Spanish types overprinted with "La Agüera".
;Dates :	1920–1924 ;Currency :	100 centimos = 1 peseta
;Refer :	Spanish West Africa Labuan
;Dates :	1879–1906 ;Capital :	 ;Currency :	100 cents = 1 dollar
;Refer :	Straits Settlements La Canea
;Refer :	Khania (Italian Post Office) Lagos
;Dates :	1874–1906 ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Refer :	Nigerian Territories Laibach (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1943–1945 ;Capital :	Ljubljana ;Currency :	100 centesimi = 1 lira
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (World War II)
;See also :	Lubiana (Italian Occupation) LANSA
;Dates :	1950–1951 ;Currency :	100 centavos = 1 peso
;Refer :	Colombian Territories Laos
;Dates :	1951 – ;Capital :	Vientiane ;Currency :	(1951) 100 cents = 1 piastre
(1955) 100 cents = 1 kip
;Main Article Needed : Las Bela
;Dates :	1897 only ;Capital :	Bela ;Currency :	12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
;Refer :	Indian Native States Latakia
;Dates :	1931–1937 ;Capital :	Latakia ;Currency : 	100 centimes = 1 piastre
;Refer :	Alaouites
;See also :	Syria Lattaquie
;Refer :	Latakia Latvia
;Dates :	1991 – ;Capital :	Riga ;Currency :	(1991) 100 kapeiku = 1 Latvian rublis
(1993) 100 santimu = 1 lats
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Latvia (pre–Soviet)
;See also :	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Latvia (pre-Soviet)
;Dates :	1918–1940 ;Capital :	Riga ;Currency :	(1918) 100 kapeiku = 1 Latvian rublis
(1923) 100 santimi (centimes) = 1 lats
;Refer :	Latvia Latvia (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1941 only ;Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (World War II) Latvija
;Refer :	Latvia League of Nations (Geneva)
;Dates :	1922–1944 ;Currency :	100 centimes = 1 franc
;Refer :	International Organisations Lebanon
;Dates :	1924 – ;Capital :	Beirut ;Currency :	100 centimes = 1 piastre
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Greater Lebanon Leeward Islands
;Dates :	1890–1956 ;Capital :	St John's (Antigua) ;Currency : 	(1890) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1951) 100 cents = 1 dollar
;Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of the Leeward Islands Leipzig
;Refer :	North West Saxony (Russian Zone) Lemnos
;Dates :	1912–1913 ;Capital :	Kastron ;Currency : 	100 lepta = 1 drachma
;Refer :	Greek Occupation Issues Lero
;Refer :	Leros Leros
;Dates :	1912–1932 ;Capital :	Ayia Marina ;Currency : 	100 centesimi = 1 lira
;Refer :	Aegean Islands (Dodecanese) Lesbos
;Dates :	1912–1913 ;Capital :	Mytilene ;Currency : 	Greek and Turkish both used
;Refer :	Greek Occupation Issues Lesotho
;Dates :	1966 – ;Capital :	Maseru ;Currency :	100 cents = 1 rand
;Main Article : Postage stamps and postal history of Lesotho
;See also :	Basutoland Lesser Sunda Islands
;Refer :	Japanese Naval Control Area Levant
;Refer :	Free French Forces in the Levant Liban
;Refer :	Lebanon Liberia
;Dates :	1860 – ;Capital :	Monrovia ;Currency :	100 cents = 1 dollar
;Main Article Needed : Libia
;Refer :	Libya Libya
;Dates :	1912 – ;Capital :	Tripoli ;Currency : 	(1912) 100 centesimi = 1 lira
(1950) 1000 milliemes = 1 Libyan pound
(1972) 1000 dirhams = 1 dinar
;Main Article Needed : Libya (Italian Post Offices)
;Refer :	Benghazi (Italian Post Office);
Tripoli (Italian Post Office)
Liechtenstein
;Dates :	1912 – ;Capital :	Vaduz ;Currency :	(1912) 100 heller = 1 krone
(1921) 100 rappen = 1 (Swiss) franc
;Main Article Needed : Lietuva
;Refer :	Lithuania Limnos
;Refer :	Lemnos Lipsos
;Dates :	1912–1932 ;Capital :	 ;Currency : 	100 centesimi = 1 lira
;Refer :	Aegean Islands (Dodecanese) Lisso
;Refer :	Lipsos Lithuania
;Dates :	1990 – ;Capital :	Vilnius ;Currency :	(1990) 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
(1992) talonas
(1993) 100 centu = 1 Lithuanian litas
;Main Article Needed :
;Includes :	Lithuania (pre–Soviet)
;See also :	Klaipėda;
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Lithuania (pre-Soviet)
;Dates :	1918–1940 ;Capital :	Vilnius ;Currency :	(1918) 100 skatiku = 1 auksinas
(1922) 100 centu = 1 litas
;Refer :	Lithuania Lithuania (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1941 only ;Currency :	100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (World War II)
;See also :	Ostland Lithuanian Occupation of Memel
;Refer :	Klaipėda Litwa Srodkowa
;Refer :	Central Lithuania (Polish Occupation) Livonia
;Refer :	Wenden Lombardy & Venetia
;Dates :	1850–1866 ;Capital :	Milan (to 1859); Venice (1859–66) ;Currency :	(1850) 100 centesimi = 1 lira
(1858) 100 soldi = 1 florin
(1858) 100 kreuzer = 1 gulden
;Main Article Needed :
;See also :	Austria Long Island (British Occupation)
;Dates :	1916 only ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Refer :	British Occupation Issues Lorraine (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1940–1941 ;Currency :	100 pfennige = 1 mark
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (World War II) Lothringen
;Refer :	Lorraine (German Occupation) Lourenço Marques
;Dates :	1895–1921 ;Currency :	(1895) 1000 reis = 1 milreis
(1912) 100 centavos = 1 escudo
;Refer :	Mozambique Territories Lübeck
;Dates :	1859–1868 ;Currency :	16 schillinge = 1 mark
;Refer :	German States Lubiana (Italian Occupation)
;Dates :	1941 only ;Currency :	100 paras = 1 dinar
;Refer :	Italian Occupation Issues
;See also :	Laibach (German Occupation) Lucca
;Refer :	Tuscany Luxembourg
;Dates :	1852 – ;Capital :	Luxembourg ;Currency : 	(1852) 121/2 centimes = 1 silver groschen; 100 centimes = 1 franc
(1940) 100 pfennige = 1 reichsmark
(1944) 100 centimes = 1 franc
(2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
;Main Article Needed : Luxembourg (German Occupation)
;Dates :	1940–1944 ;Currency :	100 pfennige = 1 reichsmark
;Refer :	German Occupation Issues (WW2) Lydenburg
;Dates :	1900–1902 ;Currency :	12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
;Refer :	Transvaal 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
Labuan
