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Encyclopedia > Tete Province

Tete is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 100,724 km² and a population of approximately 1.4 million (2002). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Mozambique is divided into 11 provinces: Cabo Delgado Gaza Inhambane Manica Maputo (city) Maputo Nampula Niassa Sofala Tete Zambezia Categories: Provinces of Mozambique ...


Tete is the capital of the province. The Cahora Bassa Dam is situated in this province. Tete is the capital city of Tete Province in Mozambique. ... The Cahora Bassa lake is southern Africas second-largest artificial lake, situated in the Tete Province in Mozambique. ...


Districts

Angónia is a district in the Tete province and borders with Malawi. The main town in Angonia is Vila Ulongué. Known for its technical training center, Hefsiba. The center was found in 1995 and is part of the Reformed Ecumenical Council's Igreja Reformada em Moçambique or Reformed Church in Mozambique. Angónia is a district situated in the north east part of Tete province, central region of Mozambique. ... Vila Ulongue is a village situated in the northern part of the Tete Province in Mozambique. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Reformed Ecumenical Council is an international organization of calvinist Churches with a membership at large of 10 million people. ...


Postage stamps

In 1913 and 1914, Portugal issued postage stamps specifically for the province. The 1913 stamps were those of the Vasco da Gama issue of 1898, overprinted "REPUBLICA / TETE" and a new denomination in centavos. Each of the eight values from Macao, Portuguese Africa, and Timor were overprinted, yielding a total of 24 stamps. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ... For other uses, see Vasco da Gama (disambiguation). ... Centavo is a Spanish word derived from the Latin Centum meaning hundred. It is a fractional monetary unit, used to represent one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world including: Argentina Bolivia Brazil Cape Verde Chile Colombia Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guinea-Bissau... Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 sq mi (30,777 km²). The name is a variant of timur...

5-centavo value of the Ceres issue, 1914
5-centavo value of the Ceres issue, 1914

In 1914, the omnibus Ceres issue of Portugal included 16 values for Tete, ranging from 1/4 centavo to one escudo. Subsequently Tete reverted to using the stamps of Mozambique. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 439 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 682 pixel, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 2Tete 5-centime stamp of 1914, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 439 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 682 pixel, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 2Tete 5-centime stamp of 1914, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. ... The escudo is a unit of currency. ...


Although these stamps are not rare, none costing the collector over about US$10, genuinely-used examples are harder to find, and command a premium of about 50-100% over unused.



 
Provinces of Mozambique
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Cabo Delgado | Gaza | Inhambane | Manica | Maputo (city) | Maputo | Nampula | Niassa | Sofala | Tete | Zambezia


 

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