CROATIA

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Landscapes.
Zelenjak Valley.
Fifth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 15.08.1941.
Face value: 1.50 Croatian kuna.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 18,000,000 copies.
Size: 34 x 27.5 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 36.
- Michel No. 51.
- Scott No. 34.
- StampWorld No. 51.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 36.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 35.

The Zelenjak Valley (Croatian: Zekenjak dolina) is located in Risvica (Kumrovec municipality), in northern Croatia, next to the border with Slovenia. The river Sutla flows through it. The place has historical connotations, as the poet Antun Mihanović was inspired by it to compose the lyrics for the Croatian national anthem, adopted in 1891: a monument 12.20 m (40 ft) high, inaugurated on November 24, 1935, remembers it. On the stamp you can see the Holy Mary chapel, at the top of the mountain.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).