ROMANIA

ROMANIA / ROMÂNIA.

European navigation on the Danube.
"Mirceşti" ship at Orşova.
Face value: 1 Romanian leu.
Design: C. & V. Carnabatu - C. Bucur.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 55 x 42.5 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 3485.
- Scott No. 2738.
- StampWorld No. 3474.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 4347.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3079.

Orşova is a municipality in Mehedinți County, Banat. It is located on the banks of the Iron Gates I reservoir on the Danube, at the mouth of the Cerna River. In the 2011 census, its population was 10,441 inhabitants. As a result of the construction of the reservoir, the city was flooded in 1970, and the population was relocated to a completely new city built between 1966 and 1971 on the southern slopes of the Almăj Mountains. In the 2nd century AD the Romans built the Dierna fort there.