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Antioquia was one of the states in the original "
United States of Colombia United States of Colombia () was the name adopted in 1863 by the for the Granadine Confederation, after years of civil war. Colombia became a federal state itself composed of nine "sovereign states.” It comprised the present-day nations ...
", and is now a department in the northwest of the Republic of Colombia. Prior to the
constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...
of 1886, Antioquia and the other states were sovereign governments in their own right, and even afterwards retained some rights, such as the management of finances.


Postage stamps

Antioquia became a sovereign state in 1858, by recognition as ''Estado de la Federación'' in the constitution of the Granadine Confederation. Antioquia issued its first postage stamps on September 1 1868. A postal exchange agreement with the sovereign state of Bolívar was established a few years later. With the Constitution of 1886, the sovereign state became a department, along with all the other states of Colombia, but they continued with their postal services and stamps until 1906, when the national government took over all the services previously performed by the departments. The small quantity of stamps issued, the lithographic printing and the variety of papers used make Antioquia a very special and interesting area of Colombian philately. With many stamps no complete sheet exists and with some stamps the largest multiple is only a pair. There was often a very small quantity of stamps printed, only 258 of some and no more than 1,000 of others. Covers of that period are even scarcer than the classic Colombian covers that are recorded. Only very few hand stamps (postal markings) were used, and most stamps were cancelled in manuscript with the name of the town of origin.Bortfeldt, Dieter. Acosta, Carlos Valenzuela. Frohlich, Alfredo ''The Private Mail Carriers of Colombia''. Bogotá, Colombia: Colombian Philatelic Research Society, COLOMPHIL, 2006.


Stamp gallery

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See also

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Postage stamps and postal history of Colombia Colombia is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered by Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the second largest popul ...


References and sources

;Notes ;Sources * Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
Encyclopaedia of Postal History
* Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. ''The Stamp Atlas''. London: Macdonald, 1986.


Further reading

* Alvarez, Juan Santa Maria. ''Historia Postal de Antioquia''. Medellin, Colombia, 2005.


External links


Colombia-Panama Philatelic Study Group
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