Lebanon was formerly a part of the Turkish Empire, and used Turkish postage stamps during that time. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, when it was a French mandate, it used French stamps overprinted for use in the combined territories of Greater Syria. The first Lebanese stamps in 1924 were overprinted French stamps.
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1838, contained at the time 400 different editions.
De Backer (Essai, ut inf.) enumerates 545 Latin
and about 900 French editions.
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