SLOVAKIA

SLOVAKIA / SLOVENSKO.

Technological advances.
Orava Dam and Reservoir.
Stamp issued on 21.04.2017.
Face value: 0.95 euro.
Design: Marián Komáček (b. 1959).
Engraving: František Horniak (b. 1956).
Printed by Poštovní tiskárna cenin Praha.
Printing: Photogravure and recess.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 44.1 x 26.5 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 780.
- Michel No. 815.
- POFIS No. 634.
- Scott No. 764.
- StampWorld No. 803.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 761.
- Unificato No. 815.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 714.

Orava (Slovak: Oravská priehrada) is a reservoir in northernmost Slovakia, forming the largest lake in Slovakia (35.2 km²). It was created by the construction of a dam between 1941 and 1953 on the former two sources of the Orava river. Several former villages had to be inundated for this purpose. The reservoir has two islands: Vtáčí ostrov ("Bird Island"), an ornithological reservation with Protected Bird Area status, and Slanický ostrov ("Slanica Island").

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).