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    Which was the first country to issue passports?

    Question #118969. Asked by darkpresence. (Nov 26 10 10:30 PM)


    schuhmacher

    		One of the earliest known reference to what served the major role of a passport is found in the Hebrew Bible. In Nehemiah 2:7-9, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport

    Nov 26 10, 10:31 PM
    schuhmacher

    		However, King Henry V of England is credited with having invented what some consider the first true passport as a means of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign lands.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport

    Nov 26 10, 10:32 PM
    davejacobs

    		Like the telephone, the passport concept as currently used needs two countries to agree, one to issue, one to scan and approve.

    Nov 27 10, 2:37 AM

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