1913 Capital Kandia (now Herakleion) Currency 100 lepta = 1 drachma Main Article Postage stamps and postal history of Crete Includes Cretan Revolutionary Assembly Crete (Austro-Hungarian Post Offices) Overprinted Austrian stamps were in use at offices in Kandia, Khania and Rethymnon. These offices all closed on 15 December 1914. Dates 1903 – 1914 Currency 100 centimes = 1 franc Main Article See also: Austro–Hungarian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire Crete (British Post Offices) Stamps inscribed in Greek were used in the British sphere of administration (Kandia) during the multi-power occupation. Mail was forwarded via the Austrian office at Khania and surviving envelopes bear the stamps of both the British and Austrian agencies. It is therefore uncertain if the British stamps had international validity. Dates 1898 – 1899 Currency 40 paras = 1 piastre (Turkish) Refer British Post Offices Abroad Crete (Foreign Post Offices) Refer Crete (Austro–Hungarian Post Offices); Crete (British Post Offices); Crete (French Post Offices); Crete (Italian Post Offices); Crete (Russian Post Offices) Crete (French Post Offices) France was one of the multi-power occupiers which ended the Cretan civil war in 1898–99. They established postal services in offices at Kandia, Khania, Hierapetra, Rethymnon and Sitea. Standard French types were issued with an inscription of CRETE. All offices were closed in 1913. Dates 1902 – 1913 Currency (1902) 100 centimes = 1 franc (1903) 40 paras = 1 piastre Main Article Crete (Italian Post Offices) Refer Khania (Italian Post Office) Crete (Russian Post Offices) Russia was one of the powers which occupied Crete in 1898. It had a post office at Rethymnon within its own sphere of administration. The service operated for a short time only: from 13 May 1899 to 29 July 1899. Four types were issued inscribed RETHYMNO with a total of 37 stamps. Dates 1899 only Currency 4 metallik = 1 grosion Refer Russian Post Offices Abroad Crimea Regional government issues. Dates 1918 – 1919 Capital Simferopol Currency 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble Refer Russian Civil War Issues Croatia Following the collapse of communism, Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 30 May 1991. Serb inhabitants revolted with the backing of the Yugoslav army and fought a bitter aggressive war against the Croatia. In January 1992, a ceasefire became effective after the intervention of the UN and the EEC. In 1995, the Republic of Croatia began to recover its occupied territories. The army liberated Western