Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

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
21	(Kingdom of Georgia II)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Georgia II is assumed. [975, 1243]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT
22	(Kingdom of Sicily - Hohenstaufen and Angevin dynasties)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Sicily - Hohenstaufen and Angevin dynasties is assumed. [1194, 1281]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT
23	(Late Greater Coclé)	Full Year Range of Late Greater Coclé is assumed. [1000, 1515]	absent	The sources I have consulted do not mention a postal service, and Precolumbian Panamanian societies were non-literate. [Mendizábal_Archibold 2004, p. 14]
24	(Makuria Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom I is assumed. [568, 618]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
25	(Makuria Kingdom II)	Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom II is assumed. [619, 849]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
26	(Makuria Kingdom III)	Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom III is assumed. [850, 1099]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
27	(Crimean Khanate)	Full Year Range of Crimean Khanate is assumed. [1440, 1783]	unknown	None
28	(Mauretania)	Full Year Range of Mauretania is assumed. [-125, 44]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
29	(Middle Greater Coclé)	Full Year Range of Middle Greater Coclé is assumed. [700, 1000]	absent	The sources I have consulted do not mention a postal service, and Precolumbian Panamanian societies were non-literate. [Mendizábal_Archibold 2004, p. 14]
30	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT

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