SLOVENIA

SLOVENIA / SLOVENIJA.

70th anniversary of the blockade of Ljubljana.
Map of the city of Ljubljana with the limits of the blockade.
Minisheet issued on 27.01.2012.
Face value: 1.33 euro.
Design: Matjaž Učakar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 70,000 copies.
Size: 70 x 60 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. A960.
- Michel No. BL60.
- Scott No. 933.
- Slovenica No. BL61.
- StampWorld No. 785.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS995.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 59.

In 1941, the Province of Ljubljana was annexed by Fascist Italy, and after 1943 occupied by Nazi Germany. From 1942 until the end of WWII, the city was surrounded by more than 30 km (19 mi) of barbed wire, as the Slovene Home Guard (Slovensko domobranstvo), a military organization financed by Nazi Germany, clashed with Yugoslav Partisans (Partizani). Since 1985, a commemorative path surrounds the city where that fence was located.