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I.A.2.a Julfa Postal Exchange Office
From Smyrna via Russian PO, R.O.P.I.T. to Isphahan 1894
Route:
Registered
cover bearing
30 kop from
R.O.P.l.T.
Smyrna,
Turkey,
12 Dec 1894
via R.O.P.I.T.
Konstantinople
PO, 14 Dec
Odessa I 7 Dec
(all Julian)
probably
Batoum, then
To Tabriz
In Persia
14 Jan 1895
(Gregorian).
At lsphahan no
arrival mark.
Rates:
2nd class
20 kopek
Reg fee: !Ok

French PO in Trebizonde, Turkey, via Batoum to Tabriz, Persia, in 1891

Rates: 25 centimes
Routes: Trebizonde French PO l 2 Sep 1891 via Saturn 1 IX, Tiflis 3 Sept (both Julian) , via Julfa to Tabriz