values, for use in its offices throughout the Turkish Empire, including those in territory that now belongs to Greece. The offices in what is now Greek territory were at Prevesa (Epirus); Jannina (Epirus); Port Lagos (Thrace); Dedeagatz (Thrace); Volos (Thessaly); Kavalla (Macedonia); Vathy (Samos); Mytilene; Corfu; Salonika; Leros (Dodecanese); Rhodes. There were special issues for the Austrian offices in Crete. Dates 1867 – 1915 Currency (1867) 100 soldi = 1 florin (1886) 40 paras = 1 piastre See also Crete (Austro-Hungarian Post Offices) AVIANCA Private air company. Dates 1950 – 1951 Currency 100 centavos = 1 peso Refer Colombian Territories Azarbaycan Refer Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Azerbaijan became an independent state and has issued its own stamps, inscribed AZARBAYCAN, since 1992. Dates 1992 – Capital Baku Currency 100 qopik = 1 manat Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan Includes Azerbaijan (pre-Soviet); Nakhichevan See also Transcaucasian Federation; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Azerbaijan (pre-Soviet) Formerly part of the Russian Empire, it became temporarily independent in May 1918 but was invaded by the Soviet Union in April 1920. Subsequently, joined the Transcaucasian Federation prior to incorporation within the USSR, whose stamps it used from 1924 to 1991. Dates 1919 – 1921 Capital Baku Currency 100 kopecks = 1 Azerbaijani rouble Refer Azerbaijan See also Transcaucasian Federation; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Azores (Acores) Dates 1980 – Capital Ponta Delgada Currency 100 centavos = 1 escudo Includes Azores (Portuguese Colonial Issues) See also Africa (Portuguese Colonies); Azores Territories; Portugal Azores (Portuguese Colonial Issues) Dates 1868 – 1931 Capital Ponta Delgada Currency (1868) 1000 reis = 1 milreis (1912) 100 centavos = 1 escudo Refer Azores Azores Territories Main Article Includes Angra; Horta; Ponta Delgada See also Azores References Bibliography Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969 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 Arad