BELARUS

BELARUS / БЕЛАРУСЬ.

EUROPA (C.E.P.T.) issue.
Ancient postal routes (on an old map).
Minishet (2 x 2 stamps) issued on 05.05.2020.
No face value (2 x H [N = 1.74 Belarusian ruble]; 2 x P [R = 1.92 Belarusian ruble]).
Design: Tatyana Kuznetsova.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 12,000 copies.
Size: 125 x 135 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. BL 187.
- Scott No. 1178a.
- StampWorld No. 1351-1352.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS 1312.
- Unificato No. 1357-1358 MF.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 183.

Each year, PostEurop's Stamps & Philately Working Group selects the EUROPA stamp theme. "Ancient Postal Routes" was the 2020 theme.

The stamp “P” of the Belarusian issue depicts the postal route “Kraków - Warsaw - Grodno - Vilnius”, approved by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Stefan Bátory in 1583; against the background of the map there is a messenger holding a road sheet, a special travel document that noted the date, time and direction of departure of the messenger.

The stamp “H” depincs the postal route “Vilnius - Maladzyechna - Minsk - Borisov - Drutsk - Orsha - Smolensk” and a messenger on horseback.

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Thanks to Kazimierz R. Leszczyński (http://leszkarozdub.blogspot.com) and Віктар Анішчык for your contribution.