Thursday 28 July 2011

World Stamps by Alphabetical Order 101-150

101. Afrique Occidentale Francaise - Guinee
French West Africa (FrenchAfrique occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in AfricaMauritania,SenegalFrench Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (nowBenin) and Niger. The federation was formed of individual coastal colonies the French had first seized as trading posts in the 17th and 18th centuries.
102.  French Somalis
French Somaliland, officially the French Coast of the Somalis, (FrenchCôte française des Somalis) was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. Established after the French signed various treaties between 1883 and 1887 with the then ruling Somali Sultans,[1] it lasted from 1896[2]until 1967, when it was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. French Somaliland occupied the territory of present-day Djibouti.

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