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]
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Variable Definition
postal_station The absence or presence of postal station for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Postal Station Description   Edit
281
(Antebellum US)
Full Year Range of Antebellum US is assumed.
[1776, 1865]
present
None
282
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I)
Full Year Range of Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I is assumed.
[1454, 1648]
absent
None
283
(Golden Horde)
Full Year Range of Golden Horde is assumed.
[1240, 1440]
present
None
284
(British Empire I)
Full Year Range of British Empire I is assumed.
[1690, 1849]
present
None
285
(Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period)
Full Year Range of Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period is assumed.
[1820, 1898]
present
None
286
(Napoleonic France)
Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed.
[1816, 1870]
present
None
287
(Tudor and Early Stuart England)
Full Year Range of Tudor and Early Stuart England is assumed.
[1486, 1689]
A~P
None
288
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
Full Year Range of Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II is assumed.
[1649, 1918]
A~P
None
289
(Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty is assumed.
[919, 1125]
absent
None
290
(Lombard Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Lombard Kingdom is assumed.
[568, 774]
unknown
None
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