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EUROPA Issue.
Triglav National Park.
Stamp issued on 23.03.1999.
Face value: 90 Slovenian tolar.
Photo: Jože Mihelič (b. 1946).
Design: studioBotas.
Printed by Delo tiskarna.
Print: 320,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 276.
- Michel No. 259.
- Scott No. 349.
- Slovenika No. 259.
- StampWorld No. 259.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 406.
- Unificato No. 259.

The Triglav National Park (Slovene: Triglavski narodni park) was officially established in 1981, and it is the only national park in Slovenia. It has an area of 880 km² (340 sq mi), and it is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif. Mount Triglav, the highest peak of the Julian Alps, stands almost in the middle of the national park. Waters in Triglav National Park consist of two watersheds: the Sava River watershed and the Soča River watershed. Many waterfalls can be found in the park, and most of them are located in the valleys of the Soča River and its tributaries. The highest waterfall is Boka Falls (106 m). In the park are located also the Tolmin Gorges on the Tolminka River. The lakes in the park are all of glacial origin; The largest among them is Lake Bohinj.

YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia)

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90th Anniversary of the Slovenian Alpinists Association.
Mount Jalovec and Edelweiss.
Stamp issued on 28.02.1983.
Face value: 4 Yugoslav dinar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 5,000,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 31.5 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1973.
- Scott No. 1616.
- StampWorld No. 2006.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2065.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1857.

Mount Jalovec is a mountain in the Julian Alps. With an elevation of 2,645 m (8,678 ft) above sea level, it is the sixth-highest peak in Slovenia. It stands between the Tamar, Koritnica, and Trenta Alpine valleys, in Upper Carniola, within the Triglav National Park. It is made up of Triassic limestone and dolomite. Under the peak is born the Soča River. The first known ascent was made by the Austrian engineer Karl Wurmb, accompanied by two Slovenian guides, in 1875.

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

SLOVENIA

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Mount Špik and Lilium carniolicum.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 21.03.2002.
No face value (D).
Design: Zagorka Šimič.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 100,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 393.
- Scott No. 488.
- Slovenica No. 387.
- StampWorld No. 377.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 539.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 562.

Špik is a mountain in the Slovenian Julian Alps and is part of the Martuljek group. It is located in the Triglav National Park. Its summit is at 2,472 m (8,110 ft) above sea level.

The flower depicted in the stamps is a Lilium carniolicum.

SLOVENIA

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Snežnik Plateau.
Stamp issued on 21.01.1997.
Face value: 20 Slovenian tolar.
Design: Boštjan Botas Kenda (b. 1963).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 500,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 187.
- Michel No. 175.
- Scott No. 284.
- Slovenica No. 175,
- StampWorld No. 175.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 340.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 166.

Snežnik is a wide karst limestone plateau with an area of approximately 85 km² (33 sq mi) in the Dinaric Alps, at its confluence with the Julian Alps. Most of the plateau is in Slovenia, while the southern part extends to Croatia and connects with the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar. Its extension is mostly flat, but it has numerous dry valleys, sinkholes and around 300 caves and wells; the surface is mainly stony, covered with uneven and shallow soil, except for the largest depressions. Its two highest peaks are the Great Mount Snežnik (Veliki Snežnik), at 1,796 m (5,892 ft), and the Little Mount Snežnik (Mali Snežnik), at 1,688 m (5,538 ft), both in Slovenian territory.

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YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia)

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Logar Valley.
Third stamp in a set of 5, issued on 18.10.1972.
Face value: 0.60 Yugoslav dinar.
Design: A. Milenkovi Fec.
Printed by Zavod za izradu novčanica, Beograd.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 23 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1470.
- Michel No. 1482. 
- Scott No. 1071.
- StampWorld No. 1516.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1475.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1356.

The Logar Valley (Slovene: Logarska dolina) is a valley in the Kamnik Alps, in the Municipality of Solčava, north of Slovenia, near Austrian border. In 1987, the valley received protected status as a landscape park encompassing 24.75 km² (9.56 sq mi). The Logar Valley is a typical U-shaped glacial valley. It is divided into three parts: the lower part is named Log, the middle part Plest (it is a mostly wooded area), and the upper part Kot (it is a wooded area with scree slopes). Altogether some 35 people live on the isolated farmsteads in the valley. The Logar Valley is ringed by some peaks, among which are the Planjava (2,394 m or 7,854 ft), the Ojstrica (2,350 m or 7,710 ft) and the Krofička (2,083 m or 6,834 ft), and it terminates in a head wall beneath the Okrešelj Cirque, where the Savinja River starts at an ice-cold spring at an elevation of 1,280 meters and flows to Rinka Falls.

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SLOVENIA

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Malturjek Group and Alpine clematis.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 21.03.2002.
No face value (A).
Design: Zagorka Simić.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 100,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 392.
- Scott No. 487.
- Slovenika No. 586,
- StampWorld No. 376.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 538.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 361.

The Martuljek group (Slovenian: Martuljška skupina), sometimes also called the Špik group, is a mountain range in the Julian Alps that rises above the upper valley of the Sava River above Gozd Martuljek, in the north-west of the country. The area of this mountainous group with the valley of the Martuljek stream was declared a landscape park on January 27, 1949 and since 1981 it is part of the Triglav National Park. The highest peaks in this group are Oltar, at 2,621 m (8,599 ft); the Great Martuljek Ponza, 2,602 m (8,537 ft); Dovški križ, 2,542 m (8,340 ft); Little Martuljek Ponca, 2,502 m (8,208 ft); the Široka peč, 2,497 m (8,192 ft) and the Špik, 2,472 m (8,110 ft).

The flower depicted on the stamp is a Clematis alpina.

SLOVENIA

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Golica Mountain.
Stamp issued on 23.03.1999.
Face value: 15 Slovenian tolar.
Design: StudioBotas, Ljubljana.
Printed by Delo tiskarna, Ljubljana.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 300,000 copies.
Size: 40.32 x 28.8 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 273.
- Michel No. 255.
- Scott No. 345.
- Slovenika No. 255,
- StampWorld No. 255.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 402.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 235.

Golica Mountain (German: Kahlkogel) is a 1,835 m (6,020 ft) peak in the western Karawanks, in the Alps, on the border between Slovenia and Austria, above the Slovenian town of Jesenice. It is known primarily for its fields of wild white daffodils (depicted on the stamp). 250 m (820 ft) below the summit, at an altitude of 1,582 m (5,190 ft), there is a mountain refuge.

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SLOVENIA

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70th anniversary of the blockade of Ljubljana.
Map of the city of Ljubljana with the limits of the blockade.
Minisheet issued on 27.01.2012.
Face value: 1.33 euro.
Design: Matjaž Učakar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 70,000 copies.
Size: 70 x 60 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. A960.
- Michel No. BL60.
- Scott No. 933.
- Slovenica No. BL61.
- StampWorld No. 785.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS995.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 59.

In 1941, the Province of Ljubljana was annexed by Fascist Italy, and after 1943 occupied by Nazi Germany. From 1942 until the end of WWII, the city was surrounded by more than 30 km (19 mi) of barbed wire, as the Slovene Home Guard (Slovensko domobranstvo), a military organization financed by Nazi Germany, clashed with Yugoslav Partisans (Partizani). Since 1985, a commemorative path surrounds the city where that fence was located.

GERMAN REICH

GERMAN REICH / DEUTSCHES REICH.

Annexion of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.
Mount Triglav, in Carniola (now Slovenia).
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 29.09.1941.
Face value: 25 + 15 German reichsfennig.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 809.
- Scott No. B197.
- StampWorld No. 798.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 795.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 733.

Triglav, with an elevation of 2,863.65 m (9,395.2 ft), is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak in the Julian Alps. It was also the highest peak in Yugoslavia before Slovenian independence in 1991. It is the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park, and the preeminent symbol of the Slovenian nation.

In April 1941, following the attack of the Axis powers on Yugoslavia and the consequent total occupation of its territory, the German Reich applied the old principle of international law of debellatio and completely annexed the northern half of Slovenia, which became integrated in the Reichsgau of Carinthia (Kärnten, in German); the south of present-day Slovenia came under Italian jurisdiction. The occupation lasted until the collapse of Nazism in May 1945.

SLOVENIA

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Goričko Natural Park (Krajinski park Goričko). 
Minisheet issued on 25.05.2012.
Face value: 1.25 euro.
Design and engraving: EdiBerk (b. 1954) and Kristjan Malačič.
Printing: Offset litography.
Print: 80,000 copies.
Size: 70 x 60 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. A979.
- Michel No. BL62.
- Scott No. 947.
- Slovenika No. BL65.
- StampWorld No. 802.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS1012.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 63.

The Goričko Natural Park (Slovene: Krajinski park Goričko) was established on October 9, 2003 and is an integral part of the trilateral Goričko-Őrség-Raab Natural Park. It covers an area of 462 km² (178 sq mi), which means that it is the second largest nature park in Slovenia. It is the habitat of the best preserved otter (Lutra lutra) population the country, with extensive water networks, lakes, ponds and marshes. The forests are also home to the hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). The best-preserved natural ecosystems are oak forests, the habitat of several rare species, such as the oak beetle (Cerambyx cerdo) and the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus). The local deer (Cervus elaphus) is the only native deer population in Slovenia that avoided extermination in the 19th century.

SLOVENIA

SLOVENIA / SLOVENIJA.

1000th Anniversary of the Town of Bled.
Lake Bled.
Stamp issued on 24.03.2004.
Face value: 218 Slovenian tolar.
Design: Klemen Rodman.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 80,000 copies.
Size: 28.8 x 40.32 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 467.
- Scott No. 552.
- StampWorld No. 445.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 618.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 429.

Lake Bled (Slovenian: Blejsko jezero) is located in the Julian Alps of the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia. Its area is 1.45 km² (0.56 sq mi); its length is 2.12 km (6,960 ft) and its maximum width is 1.38 km (4,530 ft). In the middle of the lake is the island of Bled (Blejski otok), visible on the stamp, with the Church of the Assumption of Mary (its tower is 52 m, 171 ft), among other buildings. On the northeast coast is the town of Bled, of about 5,000 inhabitants, mentioned for the first time as Ueldes in the year 1004, the date on which the stamp commemorates 1000 years. Next to it is, at 599 m (1865 ft) high, the medieval Bled Castle (Blejski grad), which houses a museum. The area is 55 km (34 mi) from the city of Ljubljana and is a major tourist destination.

YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia)

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200th Anniversary of the First Ascent of the Triglav.
Mount Triglav.
Stamp issued on 26.08.1978.
Face value: 2 Yugoslav dinar.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 894,273 copies.
Size: 28 x 33 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1740.
- Scott No. 1386.
- StampWorld No. 1774.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1836.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1623.

Triglav, with an elevation of 2,863.65 m (9,395.2 ft), is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak in the Julian Alps. It was also the highest peak in Yugoslavia before Slovenian independence in 1991. It is the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park, and the preeminent symbol of the Slovenian nation. Triglav's height was first measured on September 23, 1808 by Valentin Stanič. At the top of the mountain is a small metal structure, the Aljaž Tower (Slovenian: Aljažev stolp), which acts as a storm shelter and triangulation point. Triglav's first ascent was achieved on August 26, 1778, at the initiative of industrialist and scholar Sigmund Zois. According to a report published in 1821 by the historian and geographer Johann Richter, those who reached its peak were the surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer, the chamois hunter Štefan Rožič and the miners Luka Korošec and Matevž Kos.

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YUGOSLAVIA (Slovenia)

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12th Assembly of the International Union of Mountaineers (UIAA).
Mount Triglav.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 07.07.1951.
Face value: 5 Yugoslavian dinara.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 300,000 copies.
Size: 30 x 36 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 656.
- Scott No. C46.
- StampWorld No. 688.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 688.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 43.

Triglav, with an elevation of 2,863.65 m (9,395.2 ft), is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak in the Julian Alps. It was also the highest peak in Yugoslavia before Slovenian independence in 1991. It is the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park, and the preeminent symbol of the Slovenian nation. Triglav's height was first measured on September 23, 1808 by Valentin Stanič. At the top of the mountain is a small metal structure, the Aljaž Tower (in Slovenian, Aljažev stolp), which acts as a storm shelter and triangulation point. Triglav's first ascent was achieved in 1778, at the initiative of industrialist and scholar Sigmund Zois. According to a report published in 1821 by the historian and geographer Johann Richter, those who reached its peak were the surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer, the chamois hunter Štefan Rožič and the miners Luka Korošec and Matevž Kos.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution.