HUNGARY

HUNGARY / MAGYARORSZÁG.

25th Anniversary of the Council System in Hungary.
Map showing electoral districts, and coat of arms.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 01.10.1975.
Face value: 1 Hungarian forint.
Design: Éva Zombory (1927-1998).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 3,283,000 copies.
Size: 34 x 41 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 2990.
- Michel No. 3068A.
- Philatelia Hungarica No. 3063.
- Scott No. 2374.
- StampWorld No. 3091.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2984.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2451.

Hungary is a unitary State organised on a decentralised basis; the Fundamental Law recognises local governmental system. Hungary comprises 19 Counties (megye) and 3,154 Municipalities (település). In 1950 2,978 village councils were formed, amond which 2,808 were independent village councils and from 371 villages were formed 170 cornmon village ones. The network of village councils, developed nearly all over the country, furthered the direct realization of the aims and activity ofthe central power in transforming the society, as local organs ofthe governamental power.

VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

States of Venezuela.
Map and coat of arms of Táchira State.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 15.10.1971.
Face value: 0.55 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printed by Litografía del Comercio, Caracas.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 350,000 copies.
Size: 33 x 48 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1886.
- Scott No. 986.
- StampWorld No. 1905.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2131.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 830.

Táchira is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Republic of Venezuela. It was created in 1899. Its capital is San Cristóbal. It is located in the Andean region, in the west of the country, limiting to the north with Zulia, to the northeast with Mérida, to the south with Barinas and Apure, and to the west with the Republic of Colombia. Its area is 11,100 km² (4,300 sq mi) and its population, in 2011, was 1,168,908 inhabitants. Its highest point is the peak El Púlpito, which 3,942 m (12,933 ft) above the sea level. The hydrography is varied, there are several rivers of considerable flow, such as the Torbes, the Caparo and the Uribante.

SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA / SUID-AFRIKA.

Cooperation in Southern Africa.
Cahora Bassa Dam (Mozambique) and map of Southern Africa.
Stamp issued in a minisheet on 15.02.1990.
Face value: 18 cents of South African rand.
Design: A. H. Barrett.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 137 x 78 mm.

Catalogs 
- Michel No. 789.
- Scott No. 784.
- South African Stamp Catalogue No. 715.
- StampWorld No. 828.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 700.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 706.

The Cahora Bassa dam is located in western Mozambique. It is one of the two main dams on the Zambezi River (the other is Kariba). It was built between 1969 and 1974, when Mozambique was still a Portuguese colony. This dam is used to convert energy from the Zambezi River into electricity by spinning turbines. That energy is then sent to cities, farms and mines in South Africa. The dam forms Lake Cahora Bassa. This dam is the largest hydroelectric plant in southern Africa and the most efficient power generation plant in Mozambique: it is 171 m (561 ft) high by 303 m (994 ft) wide at the ridge. The length of the lake is about 250 km (160 mi) and its width, 38 km (24 mi), and it floods an area of 2,700 km2 (1,000 sq mi); its average depth of 20.9 m (69 ft). The Cahora Bassa system is the largest hydroelectric scheme in Southern Africa with the power plant containing five 415 megawatt (557,000 hp) turbines.

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

VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

States of Venezuela.
Map ans coat of arms of Yaracuy State.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 15.11.1971.
Face value: 0,75 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printed by Litografía del Comercio, Caracas.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 350,000 copies.
Size: 48 x 33 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1888.
- Scott No. 988.
- StampWorld No. 1907.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2133.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 832.

Yaracuy is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Republic of Venezuela. It was created in 1899. Its capital is San Felipe. It is located in the central-western region of the country, limiting to the north with Falcón, to the northeast with the Triste Gulf (Caribbean Sea), to the east with Carabobo, to the south with Cojedes and to the west with Lara. Its area is 7,100 km² (2,700 sq mi) and its population, in 2017, was 785,125 inhabitants. The most important rivers that run through it, belonging to the Caribbean basin, are the Yaracuy and the Aroa. The predominant economic activity is agriculture.

VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

States of Venezuela.
Map and coat of arms of Falcón State.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 15.04.1971.
Face value: 0.65 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printed by Litografía del Comercio, Caracas.
Printed: Offset lithography.
Print: 450,000 copies.
Size: 48 x 33 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1867.
- Scott No. C1043.
- StampWorld No. 1886.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2145.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 1001.

Falcón is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Republic of Venezuela. It was created in 1899. Its capital is Coro. It is located in the Central-Western Region: it is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Venezuela, the Caribbean Sea and the leeward group of the Netherlands Antilles, to the east by the Triste Gulf (Caribbean Sea), to the south by Yaracuy and Lara, and to the west with Zulia. Its area is 24,800 km² (9,600 sq mi) and its population, in 2015, 1,015,212 inhabitants. Falcón State is located in the north of the geographic region called the Corian System. To the south, it is made up of medium altitude mountain ranges configured from east to west, which in the eastern part of the state reach the Caribbean, forming maritime valleys. West from the city of Coro a coastal plain runs parallel to the Gulf of Venezuela. To the north lies one of the most characteristic geographic features of the Venezuelan coast: the Paraguana Peninsula, linked to the mainland by the isthmus of Médanos de Coro National Park. 

COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA.

Meeting of Communications Ministers of the Andean Group.
Map of South America with the Andean Pact Group.
Airmail stamp issued on 11.05.1974.
Face value: 2 Colombian pesos.
Design: T. Nel Molina.
Printed by De la Rue de Colombia.
Printing: Offset litography.
Print: 2,500,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 50 mm.

Catalogs
- Leo Temprano No. 1288.
- Michel No. 1263.
- Scott No. C194.
- StampWorld No. 1245.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1351.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 572.

The Andean Group or Andean Community is the result of the Andean Pact, which arose from the Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) agreement (Acuerdo de Cartagena) signed on May 26, 1969 in order to achieve greater integration of the Andean regions and greater economic and social cooperation.

VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

States of Venezuela.
Map and coat of arms of Trujillo State.
Stamp issued on 15.10.1971.
Face value: 0.65 Venezuelan bolívares.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 450,000 copies.
Size: 48 x 33.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1887.
- Scott No. 987.
- StampWorld No. 1906.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2132.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 831.

Trujillo is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Republic of Venezuela. It was created in 1899. Its capital is the homonymous Trujillo and its most populated city, Valera. It is located in the west of the country, in the Andes region. It limits to the north with the states of Zulia and Lara, to the east with Portuguesa, to the south with Barinas, to the southwest with Mérida and to the west with Lake Maracaibo. Its area is 7,400 km² (2,779 sq mi) and its population, in 2021, of 893,785 inhabitants. It is mainly mountainous because it is crossed from southwest to northeast by the Andes mountain range, although it also has hills and plains; the highest point of the state is the Teta de Niquitao, 4,006 m (13,143 ft). Among the rivers that cross it, the most important is the Motatán.

VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

Regional development.
Regional map of Venezuela.
Stamp issued on 13.12.1973.
Face value: 0.25 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printed by Bundesdruckerei, Berlin.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 39 x 30 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1957.
- Scott No. 1056.
- StampWorld No. 1976.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2246.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 904.

The regionalization of Venezuela, which began in 1969, had as its primary purpose to promote the development of the different parts that make up the country's territory in economic, social and political aspects, according to the peculiarities and resources of each area. In this way, an attempt was made to end the existing polarization between the coastal region around Caracas and the rest of Venezuela. Later, by a decree of January 14, 1980, the administrative regions of Venezuela were set at 9, according to the geographical, economic and cultural similarities of the states integrated in them.

TANZANIA

TANZANIA.

10th Anniversary of SADCC (Southern African Development Coorditation Conference).
Map of Southern Africa (SADCC Region).
Minisheet issued on 08.08.1990.
Face value: 50 Tanzanian shilingi.
Size: 88 x 88 mm.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 693.

The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), the forerunner of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was a memorandum of understanding on common economic development signed in Lusaka, Zambia, on April 1, 1980. It is formalised as the Lusaka Declaration ratified by the nine signing states (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The Declaration and Treaty establishing the SADC, which replaced the Coordination Conference, was signed at the Summit of Heads of State or Government on August 17, 1992, in Windhoek, Namibia.

EGYPT

EGYPT / مِصر

"Gaza Part of Arab Nation". Re-occupation of the Gaza Strip.
Map of Gaza Strip.
Stamp issued on 04.05.1957.
Face value: 10 milliemes of Egyptian pound.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 26 x 43 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 507.
- Scott No. 394.
- StampWorld No. 514.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 528.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 395.

The Gaza Strip (قطاع غزة) is a narrow strip of land on the shores of the Mediterranean, bordering for 51 kilometers with the southwest of Israel and for 11 kilometers with the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt). It is currently a self-governed Palestinian territory that, together with the West Bank, makes up the State of Palestine governed by the Palestinian National Authority. After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, during the First World War, France and Great Britain divided up the territory, leaving the area of ​​ Palestine undefined; and between 1920 and 1948 the strip was part of the British Mandate for Palestine. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the territory was occupied by the Egyptian army, and on September 22, 1948 the Government of all Palestinians was proclaimed in Gaza by the Arab League. During the Suez crisis in 1956, the strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops, who withdrew in 1957 (the year of issuance of this stamp). Egypt maintained its occupation of the Gaza Strip until 1967.

PARAGUAY

PARAGUAY.

Vindication of the Boreal Chaco.
Map of Paraguayan Chaco.
Stamp issued in 1936 (1935?).
Face value: 1.50 Paraguayan pesos.
Printing: Typography.
Size: 37 x 41.5 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 404.
- Scott No. 324.
- StampWorld No. 426.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 442.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 334.

Paraguay and Bolivia faced each other in the so-called Chaco War (Guerra del Chaco; Cháko Ñorairõ in Guaraní) from September 9, 1932 to June 12, 1935, due to the dispute over the northern territory of the semi-desert region of the Gran Chaco or Chaco Boreal (Bolivian Chaco for Bolivia), where it was presumed that there were large oil deposits, a presumption that was later proven false. Finally, the Treaty of Buenos Aires, signed on June 12, 1935, awarded three-quarters of the territory to Paraguay and a quarter to Bolivia, thus ending the war. It was the bloodiest interstate military conflict ever fought in South America during the 20th century, between two of its poorest countries; both had lost territory to neighbors in the wars of the 19th century.

BELIZE

BELIZE.

Commemoration of independence, 21 September 1981.
Political map with the administrative districts.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 10.02.1982.
Face value: 35 cents of Belize dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 50 x 35 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 623.
- Scott No. 595.
- StampWorld No. 328.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 658.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 573.

The territory of present-day Belize was part of the Mayan cultural area. The Spanish conquerors explored the region from 1519, they incorporated it into the Crown of Castile and the territory became part of the General Captaincy of Guatemala, but they did not colonize it. In 1716 some British loggers settled in the Belize River region, but initially the British government not considerate the region as a colony, thus respecting the Spanish presence. However, in 1862 Great Britain formally declared the territory a British Crown colony subordinate to Jamaica, and named it British Honduras. In 1949 a People's Committee was created, which demanded independence; in 1973 the colony recovered the name of Belize, and despite Guatemala's claims to the territory, it proclaimed its independence on September 21, 1981. Guatemala did not recognize the new country until 1992.

PAKISTAN

PAKISTAN / پاكِستان.

Kashmir [disputed area] Day.
Simplified map of West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), with the Kashmir region.
Last in a set of 4, issued on 23.03.1960.
Face value: 1 Pakistani rupee.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 111.
- StampWorld No. 120.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 111.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 112.

The 138 km² (86,000 sq miles), mountainous and ethnically diverse region of Kashmir, located northwest of the Indian subcontinent, is a disputed territory between Pakistan, India and the People's Republic of China, its borders have been in conflict since 1947, and they are not yet defined. This has led to several military clashes. The first war between Pakistan and India broke out in October 1947 and ended in July 1949 after the mediation of the United Nations. In 1965 and 1999 there were other clashes. Both India and Pakistan claim the territory (this stamp is proof of this), and the People's Republic of China also intends to incorporate the northeastern zone. Numerous attempts to pacify the area have failed.

CONGO (Democratic Republic)

CONGO Democratic Republic / République démocratique du CONGO.

Commemoration of Independence of Belgium, June 30, 1960.
Simplified political map of the independent Republic.
Fourth stamp in a set of 10, issued on 30.06.1960.
Face value: 1.50 Congolese franc.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 359.
- Michel No. 4.
- StampWorld No. 4.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 395.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 375.

In the 1870s European exploration of the Congo Basin was carried out, first led by Henry Morton Stanley under the sponsorship of Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold formally acquired rights to the Congo territory at the Berlin Conference in 1885 and declared the land his private property, naming it the Congo Free State. During the Free State, his colonial military unit, the Force Publique, forced the local population to produce rubber. From 1885 to 1908, millions of the Congolese people died as a consequence of disease and exploitation. In 1908, Leopold, despite his initial reluctance, ceded the so-called Free State to Belgium, thus it became known as the Belgian Congo.

Congo achieved independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960 under the name Republic of the Congo.

BERMUDA

BERMUDA.

Historical map of island of Bermuda: 
("A mapp of the Sommer Islands", London, 1626) by John Speed (1552-1629).
Fifth stamp in a set of 5, issued on 14.05.1979.
Face value: 50 Bermudian cent.
Design: John Cooter.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Printed by The House of Questa Ltd, London.
Size: 31.75 x 48.26 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 373.
- Scott No. 384.
- StampWorld No. 376.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 408.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 374.

John Speed ​​(Farndon, Cheshire, 1552 - London, July 28,1629) was an English cartographer and historian. He is, alongside Christopher Saxton, one of the best known English mapmakers of the early modern period. Speed ​​drew historical maps in 1601 and 1627 depicting the invasion of England and Ireland, depictions of the English Middle Ages, along with those depicting the present day. It was with the support of William Camden that Speed ​​began his Historie of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611. His atlas The Theater of the Empire of Great Britaine was published in 1611 and 1612, and contained the first set of individual maps of the counties of England and Wales, plus maps of Ireland and a general map of Scotland. He also drew maps of the Channel Islands, Poland, and the Americas.

CANADA

CANADA.

Canada Day 1981.
Maps of the evolution of Confederation from 1867 to 1949.
Set of 4 stamps issued on 30.06.1981.
Face value: 17 cents of Canadian dollar each stamp.
Design: Raymond Bellemare, Montreal, using a colour scheme based on the rainbow.
Engraving: British American Bank Note Company, Ottawa.
Printing: Lithography.
Print: 10,708,000 copies.
Size of each stamp: 30 x 36 mm.

Catalogues
- Scott Nos. 890-893.
- StampWorld Nos. 801-804.
- Yvert et Tellier Nos. 769-772.

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