Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

Talking about postal sytems, postal stations are specialized buildings exclusively devoted to the postal service. if there is a special building that has other functions than a postal station, we still code postal station as present. the intent is to capture additional infrastructure beyond having a corps of messengers. (See here)

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Variable	Definition
Polity	The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s)	The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag	[Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
postal_station	The absence or presence of postal station for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Postal Station	Description	Edit
1	(Portuguese Empire - Renaissance Period)	1495 CE 1519 CE	absent	None
2	(Portuguese Empire - Renaissance Period)	1520 CE 1579 CE	present	None
3	(Spanish Empire II)	1716 CE 1814 CE	present	None
4	(Ottoman Empire IV)	1840 CE 1922 CE	present	The Ministry of the Post was established on 23 October 1840. Its duty was to provide postal services for private individuals as well as the government and the first road link went from Istanbul to Edirne. [webpage_Postal service among the Ottomans...]
5	(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)	1867 CE 1918 CE	present	None
6	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
7	(Eastern Zhou)	Full Year Range of Eastern Zhou is assumed. [-475, -256]	present	None
8	(Southern Song)	Full Year Range of Southern Song is assumed. [1127, 1279]	absent	None
9	(Vijayanagara Empire)	Full Year Range of Vijayanagara Empire is assumed. [1336, 1646]	unknown	None
10	(Portuguese Empire - Early Modern)	Full Year Range of Portuguese Empire - Early Modern is assumed. [1640, 1806]	present	None

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