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Showing posts with label Southeast Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southeast Europe. Show all posts

Monday, 25 August 2014

#70: Fourth postcard from Greece

A Greek kitten

Mountain stamp

Received from Despina from Heraklion.

Greece has no navigable rivers due to its mountainous terrain.

Sunday, 24 August 2014

#70: Third postcard from Greece

Cats!

Mountain stamp

Received from Despina from Heraklion.

In Greece, voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.

Sunday, 1 June 2014

#93:Second postcard from Montenegro

Kotor

Hourglass and lady stamp

Received from Ivana from Podgorica.

Montenegro has always been a problem for cartographers simply because it is tricky to write out all the letters of its name on the small footprint it occupies on the map.

Sunday, 25 May 2014

#163: Second postcard from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hrvatska Pošta Mostar)

Views of Herzegovina
Label, commemorative, archaeology and heron stamps

Received from Zoran from Mostar. Please check out his blog here.

Bosnia and Herzegovina gained it's independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on March 1, 1992.

#163: First postcard from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hrvatska Pošta Mostar)

Views of Mostar

Label, archaeology and commemorative stamps


Received from Zoran from Mostar. Please check out his blog here.

Hrvatska Pošta Mostar is one of the three postal authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.




















Monday, 18 November 2013

#93: First postcard from Montenegro

Map of Montenegrin coast

Paragliding stamps

Received from Katarina from Tenja, Croatia.

Montenegro is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south-east.

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

#70: First postcard from Greece

Map and views of Greece

Paddling stamp

Received from Xristos from Kavala.

Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast.