POLAND

POLAND / POLSKA.

100th Anniversary of Polish Settlement in Argentina.
Map of South America with Argentina highlighted.
Stamp issued on 06.06.1997.
Face value: 1.40 Polish złotych.
Design: Andrzej Radziejowski.
Printed by PWPW (Polska Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych), Warszawa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 700,000 copies.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 3553.
- Fischer No. 3512.
- Michel No. 3660.
- Scott No. 3357.
- StampWorld No. 3666.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3695.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3441.

Polish immigration in Argentina began at the end of the 19th century. Poland was the fourth largest net contributor of European immigrants after Spain, Italy and Germany. The first known Polish immigrants were a group of 14 families (120 people) from Galicia, a territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire divided today between Poland and Ukraine, who were heading to the United States and who, due to lack of documentation, had to choose between returning to their places of origin or undertake another destination: the Argentine consul in Trieste offered them lands to colonize in their country and they accepted. They arrived in La Plata in 1897. The governor of the National Territory of Misiones, Juan José Lanusse, accepted to welcome them. Today it is estimated that more than a million Argentines have Polish ancestry.

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Thanks to Sylvester Dulewski for his contribution (https://birdsposta.blogspot.com/).