YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia)

YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia) / JUGOSLAVIJA (Slovenija).

12th Assembly of the International Union of Mountaineers (UIAA).
Mount Triglav.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 07.07.1951.
Face value: 5 Yugoslavian dinara.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 300,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 36 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 656.
- Scott No. C46.
- StampWorld No. 688.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 688.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 43.

Triglav, with an elevation of 2,863.65 m (9,395.2 ft), is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak in the Julian Alps. It was also the highest peak in Yugoslavia before Slovenian independence in 1991. It is the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park, and the preeminent symbol of the Slovenian nation. Triglav's height was first measured on September 23, 1808 by Valentin Stanič. At the top of the mountain is a small metal structure, the Aljaž Tower (in Slovenian, Aljažev stolp), which acts as a storm shelter and triangulation point. Triglav's first ascent was achieved in 1778, at the initiative of industrialist and scholar Sigmund Zois. According to a report published in 1821 by the historian and geographer Johann Richter, those who reached its peak were the surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer, the chamois hunter Štefan Rožič and the miners Luka Korošec and Matevž Kos.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution.