Postage stamps and postal history of Moldova
Encyclopedia
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history
of Moldova
.
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked
country in Eastern Europe
, located between Romania
to the west and Ukraine
to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the devolution of the Soviet Union
. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognized territory on the east bank of the river Nistru has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria
since 1990.
Postal history
Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of postage stamps and covers and associated material illustrating historical episodes of postal systems...
of Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
.
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked
Landlocked
A landlocked country is a country entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas. There are 48 landlocked countries in the world, including partially recognized states...
country in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, located between Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
to the west and Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the devolution of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognized territory on the east bank of the river Nistru has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...
since 1990.
See also
- Poşta MoldoveiPoşta Moldovei- Bibliography :* Dinu Poştarenco. Poşta Moldovei. File de istorie. Chişinău 2000. Editura Civitas. ISBN 9975-936-59-8- External links :...
- Postage stamps and postal history of RomaniaPostage stamps and postal history of RomaniaThis is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Romania.-19th century:The principality of Moldavia issued stamps immediately upon gaining autonomy in 1858, with the first cap de bour stamps being issued in July 1858. These were produced by handstamping on laid paper, and are now quite...
- Postage stamps and postal history of RussiaPostage stamps and postal history of Russiaright|thumb|A Russian Empire postman.This a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation.- Early postal history :Records mention a system of messengers in the 10th century...
- Postage stamps and postal history of TransnistriaPostage stamps and postal history of TransnistriaThis is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Transnistria, an unrecognized breakaway territory of Moldova and the de facto independent Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.- Before independence :- Tiraspol Zemstvo stamps :...
- Zimbrul şi VulturulZimbrul si VulturulZimbrul şi Vulturul was a 19th Century Romanian newspaper, published in the city of Iași , capital of the Principality of Moldavia, and having readership in other parts of what was to become the Kingdom of Romania....