OMAN / عمان
Empty Quarter Saudi Arabia.
Map of State of Oman and dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius).
Cindarella (unrecognized issue), 1968.
Face value: 3 B.
Size: 34.3 x 44.3 mm.
This
stamps was issued by the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Oman. The “State of Oman” was based in the Green Mountains
(Al Jabal al Akhdar) area of Oman and the region of Dhofar south of
Oman, and Nizwa was the rebel
capital. The Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf
(later called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman; PFLO) gained
control of the growing rebellion by the late 1960s with the aid of the People’s
Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Marxist South Yemen (which had achieved
independence from the British in late 1967), and Iraq.
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