Dodecanese Turkish Post Office

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Dodecanese Turkish Post Office
Bilingual canc. "KALYMNOS[1]" in lilac and in blue on a pair of 20pa and on 1piastre and 2piastres Turkish stamps.

Dodecanese Italian Occupation - Italian Post Office Issue Italian stamps 2x25c. Michetti ovpt. "Rodi" (Hellas 7XI) on fragment, canc. "R.R. POSTE ITALIANE * KALYMNO (EGEO)

 18.11.21

[1] Kalymnos, (Greek: Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum (the ancient Halicarnassos), between the islands of Kos (south, at a distance of 12 km (7 mi)) and Leros (north, at a distance of less than 2 km (1 mi)): the latter is linked to it through a series of islets. Kalymnos lies between two and five hours away by sea from Rhodes.The island was known as Càlino in Italian and Kilimli or Kelemez in Turkish. 

In 1310 it came under the control of the Knights of Rhodes, and later (mainly in 1457 and 1460) was often attacked by the Ottomans, who eventually conquered it in 1522. Unlike Rhodes and Kos, during the Ottoman period there was no Turkish immigration to Kalymnos.


On May 12, 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War, Kalymnos was occupied by Italian sailors of the Regia Marina. Italy took control of the island along with other islands of the Dodecanese (except Kastellorizo initially) until 1947, when the Dodecanese were finally united with mainland Greece, as part of the modern Greek state.

 Greek Occupation Issues

Albania (Greek Occupation);

Dodecanese Islands (Greek Occupation);

Kavalla (Greek Occupation);

Khios;

Lemnos;

Lesbos

Adrianople;

Aegean Islands (Dodecanese);

Dedêagatz (Greek Occupation);

Eastern Thrace;

Epirus;

Gumultsina;

Ikaria;

Thrace;

Western Thrace;

Western Thrace (Greek Occupation)