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
271	(Byzantine Empire II)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire II is assumed. [867, 1072]	present	None
272	(Byzantine Empire III)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire III is assumed. [1073, 1204]	present	None
273	(Ottoman Empire I)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire I is assumed. [1402, 1517]	present	None
274	(Ottoman Empire II)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire II is assumed. [1517, 1683]	present	None
275	(Khanate of Bukhara)	Full Year Range of Khanate of Bukhara is assumed. [1599, 1747]	present	None
276	(Samanid Empire)	Full Year Range of Samanid Empire is assumed. [819, 999]	present	None
277	(Timurid Empire)	Full Year Range of Timurid Empire is assumed. [1370, 1526]	present	None
278	(Plantagenet England)	Full Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed. [1154, 1485]	absent	None
279	(Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty is assumed. [1310, 1526]	absent	None
280	(Us Reconstruction-Progressive)	Full Year Range of Us Reconstruction-Progressive is assumed. [1866, 1933]	present	None

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