Looking For A "Country Name Change" Recap...............

Hi !
I collect worldwide from the beginning thru the early 1960s. Especially in the later part of this timeframe, a lot of countries changed their names (or borders). I have found myself more than a few times doing internet searches trying to figure out "when did this country name exist?" or "what was its previous name?", etc., etc.

So I was wondering, is there a recap out there that flowcharts country name changes thru the years?

Not aware of a summary but you can find any current or former country name on wikipedia.com

Mobilman44,

A list like this can be found at Linns.com. From the home page of Linns, place your cursor over the red "reference" box and below that a list of topics should appear. You can then select the "country name cross index". This does show dates for many of the entries but not all of them. I still consider this to be a useful list.

The list is alphabetical by the current name. The ideal list would also have it sorted by the former name to speed the search in some cases.

Hope this helps.
Hobsun

Go to
http://www.dcstamps.com/

or Google for Dead Country Stamps

This site deals with all sorts of no longer existing stamp-issuing countries. Michael Adkins has marvelous charts of how various countries (often colonies) changed names and merged and changed over time.

Adkins has a tab titled "Dead Country List" that simply lists all no-longer-existing countries grouped by geography or colonial connections etc. up to 1955. Some have clickable links--those are the one's he's "worked up." Sometimes there will be a clickable "transition chart" which is what I referred to in my previous comment.

Thank you!

Both lists helped a lot, and along with the Linn's Identifier that should minimize my having to do internet searches.

Mobilman44

Hi All

As the person who runs DCStamps, I appreciate your reference to the site. Although I don't do much in the summers, I am now back to adding content to the site. The Transition Charts http://www.dcstamps.com/?page_id=1464 are a help to me to understand the movement of nations within a particular region. Before the summer, I completed charts for the very complicated Russian area (notice that I had to break it down into 4 different charts, 5 if you count the Baltics). I am now working in the Middle East. I plan to have 3 charts to cover that area. I have finished the chart for the Syria/Lebanon Area, and am now working on the Palestine/Jordan Area and the Arabian Peninsula.

As many of these regions have very complicated histories, I ALWAYS welcome comments and corrections to make the charts as useful as possible.

Please let me know if you have any comments and questions about anything on the site.

Michael

There is a lot of information here. Sometimes too much!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...tamp_issuers