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Montenegro History - Stari Bar November 12, 2013 Stari Bar is a small town on Londša hill, at the foot of Mount Rumija, in southern Montenegro. The stamp depicts a historical map of the town and its nearby area, including the coastline of the Adriatic Sea.  |
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This small (29mm x 20mm), late 1930's Polish dues stamp features maps of 2 Baltic cities, neither of which was in Poland at the time. The left map shows Szczecin (Stettin, Germany) and right map features Gdansk (Free City of Danzig), which Poland claimed. The stamp is of the Liga Morska, the Maritime and Colonial League, which began as a public society to promote seafaring and colonial expansion for Poland. The League was quickly taken over by the government for its usefulness in promotion and propaganda, From Wikipedia, "The Maritime and Colonial League was a mass Polish social organization, created in 1930. In the late 1930's it was directed by general Mariusz Zaruski and its purpose was to educate the Polish nation about maritime issues. It also actively supported the development of both a merchant fleet and a large navy, as well as colonies and overseas possessions." Some of Poland's prospective colonies included Brazil, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Peru. Before the German and Soviet invasions of 1939, the League had approximately one million members.  |
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Greece 300 Years since the Siege of Corfu October 20, 2016 The stamp reproduces a map of Corfu by Christoph Weigel (1654-1725).  |
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Definitely Corfu, but at first glance I thought it one of those old maps that depicted California as an island! |
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Portugal 500th Anniversary of Discovery of Straits of Magellan March 18, 2020 An antique map of the Straits of Magellan appears in the middle section of the se-tenant stamp set.  |
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Peru Centenary of Geographical Society of Lima September 18, 1989 The stamp shows an ancient map of South America.  |
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Uruguay 500 Years of the First Circumnavigation of the World September 3, 2019 The souvenir sheet shows a world map with the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation route.  |
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Belgium Cartography March 12, 2012 The souvenir sheet shows an antique world map published in the 1630 Mercator-Hondius Atlas.  |
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Iceland EUROPA - Ancient Postal Routes May 7, 2020 The stamp shows a map of Iceland with postal routes.  |
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Singapore 2019 The outline of the Singapore main island shown on the miniature sheet on the theme of parks.  |
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Singapore 2019 100 Years of the First Airmail. With map showing the mail route.  |
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This 5c stamp (Sc #500) of Panama is from a set of two publicizing the country's seventh census of the population.  |
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Poland EUROPA - Ancient Postal Routes April 29, 2020 The stamp shows an ancient map of central Poland, with Vistula River stretching from Krakow to Gdansk.  |
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On October 26, 1976 Transkei, a state created by the Republic of South Africa's apartheid government, issued its first definitive series. The 50c value (Sc #19) from this set of 21, shows a map of Transkei and its coat of arms. From Wikipedia, "Transkei represented a significant precedent and historic turning point in South Africa's policy of apartheid and "separate development"; it was the first of four territories to be declared independent of South Africa. Throughout its existence, it remained an internationally unrecognized, diplomatically isolated, politically unstable de facto one-party state, which at one point broke relations with South Africa, the only country that recognized it as a legal entity. In 1994, it was reintegrated into its larger neighbor and became a part of Eastern Cape province."  |
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