CASTELLORIZO

CASTELLORIZO / CASTELROSSO / ΜΕΓΊΣΤΗ (Italian occupation).

2nd anniversary of the Italian occupation.
Map os the island and Italian flag.
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued in 03.1923.
Facial value: 10 cents of Italian lira.
Printing: Typography.
Print: 100,000 copies.
Size: 40 x 24 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 11.
- Sassone No. 11.
- Scott No. 61.
- StampWorld No. 11.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 11.
- Unificato No. 11.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 11.

Castellorizo or Kastellorizo (in Greek, Καστελλόριζο, officially Μεγίστη; in Italian, Castelrosso; in Turkish, Meis or Kızılhisar), with the smaller islands of Ro (Ρω) and Strongyli (Στρογγυλή), is a Greek island and municipality of Dodecanese, in the Eastern Mediterranean, 2 km (1 mi) off the south coast of Turkey, about 125 km (72 nautical miles) east of Rhodes Island. Disputed and occupied throughout history by Greeks, Byzantines, Turks, Egyptians, Aragonese, Venetians, French, Italians and British, in 1920 the Treaty of Sèvres assigned the island to Italy, which occupied it from 1921 until September 10, 1943, when the Italian troops capitulated and the island was in the hands of British, who evacuated the entire population (about 1,000 people) to Gaza. On March 7, 1948, by the Paris Peace Treaties signed in February 1947, the island was definitively under the administration of Greece, together with all the Dodecanese islands, and was assigned to the peripheral unit of Rhodes. According to the 2011 census, the island's population was 492 inhabitants.

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Thanks to Vairo Gregori for his contribution (https://ternifil.org/).