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
41	(Yemen - Ottoman period)	Full Year Range of Yemen - Ottoman period is assumed. [1873, 1920]	absent	None
42	(Songhai Empire)	Full Year Range of Songhai Empire is assumed. [1376, 1493]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
43	(Sukhotai)	Full Year Range of Sukhotai is assumed. [1238, 1419]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
44	(Tahert)	Full Year Range of Tahert is assumed. [761, 909]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
45	(Third Scythian Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Third Scythian Kingdom is assumed. [-429, -225]	unknown	No data.
46	(Tlemcen)	Full Year Range of Tlemcen is assumed. [1235, 1554]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT
47	(Wattasid)	Full Year Range of Wattasid is assumed. [1465, 1554]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
48	(Zagwe)	Full Year Range of Zagwe is assumed. [1137, 1269]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
49	(Zirids)	Full Year Range of Zirids is assumed. [973, 1148]	unknown	EMPTY_COMMENT
50	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT

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