The Emirate of Fujairah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, the only one of the seven with a coastline solely on the Gulf of Oman and none on the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Fujairah.
The Emirate of Fujairah, dominated by the Sharqiyin tribe, sits at the mouth of the important trade route, the Wadi Ham (which is guarded by the Sharqiyin Al Bithnah Fort), through the mountains to the interior and the Persian Gulf Coast.
Known as the Shamaliyah, the east coast of what is now the UAE was subject to Muscat until 1850, when it was annexed by Al Qasimi of Sharjah, in an agreement made between Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi and the Sultan of Muscat.
The Shamaliyah was governed by Al-Qasimi Wali at Kalba although frequently seceded and in 1901 Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Sharqi, chief of the Sharqiyin, declared independence from Sharjah.
This was recognized by a number of the Trucial Sheikhs and also by Muscat, but not the British, who were frequently provoked by the independently minded Ruler.
At this time, The Emirate of Fujairah consisted of some 150 houses and 3,000 date palms and its people lived mainly through pearling and date cultivation. Since the absorption of Kalba by Sharjah in 1952, the Shamaliyah is shared by the emirates of Fujairah and Sharjah.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
1964.01
22.09.1964
Definitives
1n
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
3n
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
5n
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
40n
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
= 1n
1964.02
14.11.1964
Definitives
1964.01
30n
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
70n
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
1.50r
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
10r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
= 30n
1965.01
16.08.1965
Definitives
1964.01-2
15n
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
35n
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
75n
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
5r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1965.02
14.10.1965
Official stamps
1964.01
25n
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
50n
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
1r
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
1965.03
10.11.1965
Official stamps
1964.02
5r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1967.01
Surcharge on 1964.01-2
1d
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
3d
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
5d
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
30d
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
40d
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
70d
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
1.50r
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
10r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1967.02
Surcharge on 1965.01
15d
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
35d
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
75d
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
5r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1967.03
Surcharge on 1965.02-3
25d
34
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
50d
84
Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops
1r
70
Great Egret Ardea alba
5r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
1969.01
30.05.1969
Birds
25d
104
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
50d
24
Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
1r
27
Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
1.25r
13
Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala
1.50r
226
Yemen Thrush Turdus menachensis
2r
104
Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
2.50r
70
Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
3r
23
Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii
5r
104
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
1971.01
15.10.1971
Tropical birds
30d
22
Red-crested Turaco Tauraco erythrolophus
70d
256
Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
1r
122
Many-colored Rush Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra
2r
172
King Bird-of-paradise Cicinnurus regius
3r
124
Lance-tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia lanceolata
1971.02
15.10.1971
Tropical birds
10r
234
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
MS
1972.01
European birds
30d
227
Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
70d
43
Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
1r
8
Common Merganser Mergus merganser
2r
49
Dunlin Calidris alpina
3r
188
Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
1972.02
European birds
10r
90
African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
MS
1972.03
24.07.1972
Scouts and birds
30d
1
Somali Ostrich Struthio molybdophanes
70d
59
Emperor Penguin Aptenodytes forsteri
1r
83
Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno
2r
54
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
3r
107
Blue-and-yellow Macaw Ara ararauna
4r
73
Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
1972.04
24.07.1972
Scouts and birds
10r
98
Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco
MS
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