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 is organised in the spirit of the inventors of the phone system: Phonebook of North America.com (+I) Phonebook of Africa.com (+2) Phonebook of Europe.com (+3 or +4 ) Phonebook of Latin America.com (+5) Phonebook of South Asia.com (+6) Phonebook of Russia.com (+7) Phonebook of North Asia.com (+8) Phonebook of the Middle/Far East.com (+9) |
always start with +3 or +4 most countries have a 2 digit code 3- or 4- |
Phone information on all Countries of Europe. Whitepages and Yellowpages, Pagesblanches and Pages Jaunes, Paginas Blancas and Paginas Amarillas, Pagine Bianche and Pagine Gialle all over Europe. The best Phonebooks of Europe that are available on the Internet should be here. This site also gives you Country Codes and Area Codes, and Information on Directory Assistance throughout Europe. |
Thurn und Taxis  invented
the Postal
Service 386 years before theTelephone was invented in the United States ... secrets behind European phonecodes: the International country codes got issued in I964, as if the Inventors of the Phonesystem didn't want Europe to remain divided into East and West these codes do not in any way reflect the division following the I945 end of the 2nd World War, in general the 4- codes are for the North Eastern Anglo/Germanic countires: (+4I), (+43), (+44), (+45), (+46), (+47), (+48), (+49) the 3- codes for the South Western Latin countries: (+3I), (+32), (+33), (+34), (+39) and 35- for the smaller countries: (+350), (+35I), (+352), (+353), (+354), (+355), (+356), (+357), (+358), (+359) there are some exeptions to the logic but they concern codes that were issued at a later time like Romania (+40) or exEast Germany (ex+37) looking throug an old adress book Brigitte was very surprised to notice that a friend from Turkey had a number starting with (+36) in I968 Turkey, a candidat for EU membership, got removed from Europe and switched over the the Middle East with the present code (+90) for the following 30 year nothing changed until Nov 9 I989, fall of the Berlin wall recently due to political changes 37, 38 and 42 became available to 'new' countries mostly from the former exSoviet (+7) phonesystem 37 from exEast Germany after the reunification of Germany, (+37) became available to I0 new countries: Lithuania (+370), Latvia (+37I) , Estonia (+372) , Moldova (+373), Armenia (+374), Belarus (+375) shortly later some small countires did not want to be part of the phonesytem of their French or Italian neighbourg so they also got the remaining exCommunist Germany +37 codes: Andorra (+376) , Monaco (+377), San Marino (+378) and the Vatican (+379 not activated jet) after break up of old Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia 38 was used for Ukraine (+380), and the 5 countries which made the old Yugoslavia: new Yugoslavia (including Serbia and Montenegro) (+38I), Croatia (+385), Slovenia (+386), Bosnia (+387) and Macedonia (+389) after separation of old Czechoslovakia 42 was used for Czech Republic (+420), Slovakia (+42I) and since april 5 I999 Liechtenstein (leaving Switzerland) (+423) for future changes various +38- and +42- codes are available these codes could be issued for future European countries ... |
