HUNGARY

HUNGARY / MAGYARORSZÁG.

International Congress of Esperanto Railways in Budapest.
Simplified map of Europe.
Stamp issued on 05.05.1962.
Face value: 1 Hungarian forint.
Design: Ferenc Bokros (1891-1974).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 5,500,000 copies.
Size: 31 x 36 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1783.
- Michel No. 1819A.
- Philatelia Hungarica No. 1924.
- Scott No. 1436.
- StampWorld No. 1842.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1795.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1494.

Esperanto, an international planned language conceived in the second half of the 19th century by the Polish ophthalmologist Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, who laid out its foundations in 1887, spread rapidly throughout Europe and the world, and on August 9, 1905 the so-called Declaration of Boulogne it unofficially established it as a universal alternative language. Hungary was one of the first countries to welcome this language, and already in 1902 the Association of Hungarian Esperantists (Hungaria Esperanto-Asocio; Magyar Eszperantisták Egylete) was created, which later had different names; when the congress commemorated by this stamp was held in 1962, the Hungarian Esperanto Association (Magyar Eszperantó Szövetség, 1960-1991) was in force.