SLOVENIA

SLOVENIA / SLOVENIJA.

Malturjek Group and Alpine clematis.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 21.03.2002.
No face value (A).
Design: Zagorka Simić.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 100,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 392.
- Scott No. 487.
- Slovenika No. 586,
- StampWorld No. 376.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 538.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 361.

The Martuljek group (Slovenian: Martuljška skupina), sometimes also called the Špik group, is a mountain range in the Julian Alps that rises above the upper valley of the Sava River above Gozd Martuljek, in the north-west of the country. The area of this mountainous group with the valley of the Martuljek stream was declared a landscape park on January 27, 1949 and since 1981 it is part of the Triglav National Park. The highest peaks in this group are Oltar, at 2,621 m (8,599 ft); the Great Martuljek Ponza, 2,602 m (8,537 ft); Dovški križ, 2,542 m (8,340 ft); Little Martuljek Ponca, 2,502 m (8,208 ft); the Široka peč, 2,497 m (8,192 ft) and the Špik, 2,472 m (8,110 ft).

The flower depicted on the stamp is a Clematis alpina.