Italian Colony Rhodes Rodi Mussolini Era set classic stamps 1928 MNH

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Italian Colony Rhodes Rodi Mussolini Era set classic stamps 1928 MNH:
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Good stamps. Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the Eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 115,490 (2011 census), and also the island group\'s historical capital. In 1912, Italy seized Rhodes from the Turks during the Italo-Turkish War. The island\'s population thus bypassed many of the events associated with the \"exchange of the minorities\" between Greece and Turkey. Due to the Treaty of Lausanne, the island, together with the rest of the Dodecanese, was officially assigned to Italy. It became the core of their possession of the Isole Italiane dell\'Egeo. Following the Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943, the British attempted to get the Italian garrison on Rhodes to change sides. This was anticipated by the German Army, which succeeded in occupying the island. In great measure, the German occupation caused the British failure in the subsequent Dodecanese Campaign. On 19 July 1944, the Gestapo secret German police rounded up the island\'s nearly 2,000 Jewish inhabitants to send them to extermination camps. About 160 of the island\'s more than 600 Greek Jews survived. The Turkish Consul Selahattin Ülkümen succeeded, at considerable risk to himself and his family, in saving 42 Jewish families, about 200 persons in total, who had Turkish citizenship or were members of Turkish citizens\' families. On 8 May 1945 the Germans under Otto Wagener surrendered Rhodes as well as the Dodecanese as a whole to the British, who soon after then occupied the islands as a military protectorate. In 1947, together with the other islands of the Dodecanese, Rhodes was united with Greece. In 1949, Rhodes was the venue for negotiations between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, concluding with the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

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