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Moldova
Prehistoric animals, Charles Darwin, Natural History Museums
on stamps, postmarks and postal stationeries of Moldova
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Contents
- Country overview
- Philately at Moldova
- Official stamps of Moldova related to Paleontology
- Other stamps of Moldova to consider
- Some commemorative postmarks of Moldova to consider
- Some postal stationeries of Moldova to consider
- References
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The capital city is Chișinău. Moldova declared independence on 27 August 1991, as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The current Constitution of Moldova was adopted in 1994. A strip of Moldovan territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990. Moldova is the poorest country in Europe.
Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. [R1]
The first stamps of independent Moldova were designed by Grigoriy Bronza and issued in 1991. [R2]
Official stamps of Moldova related to Paleontology: prehistoric animals and their fossils, Charles Darwin
| 06.04.1995 "Exhibits from the National Ethnographic Museum" [1] | 24.11.2009 "Famous persons" [2] | 30.11.2010 "Prehistoric animals" |
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| 29.10.2016 "Extinct animals" | ||
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[1] Stamp with a value of "10b +2b" depicting Dinotherium (Deinotherium) gigantissimum. The skeleton was found in 1966 near the village Pripiceni, Moldova. The first description of this animal was made by the scientist Grigorie Stefanescu (1836-1911), Romanian paleontologist.[2] Charles Darwin is shown on the stamp with face value of 7L
Other stamps of Moldova to consider: Natural History Museum
| 03.05.2014 "National Museums of the Republic of Moldova" [3] | ||
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[A1]
"National
Museums of the
Republic of Moldova" stamps set
shows buildings of three museum of Moldova: National Museum of
Ethnography and Natural History, National Museum of History and
National Museum of Fine Arts. Every stamp issued on mini sheets of 10
stamps: 5 rows of 2 stamps with various images on labels in
between. One of a coupons of a mini-sheet of The National Museum of
Ethnography and Natural History stamps sheet
shows fossilized skeleton of Deinotherium Giganteum from the
museums collection. (In 1995 the Deinotherium appeared on post stamp of
Moldova already ).Some commemorative postmarks of Moldova to consider: Natural History Museum
| 06.04.1995 "Exhibits from the National Ethnographic Museum" [A1] [FDC] | 24.10.2014 "125 anniversary of National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History" | 24.10.2019 "130 anniversary of National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History" |
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Some postal stationeries of Moldova to consider: Natural History Museums, contributor to Paleontology science
| 2005 "National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History and its first director Mr. A. Stuart (1842-1917)" [A1] | 2014 "120 anniversary of National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History" [A1] | 24.10.2014 "125 anniversary of National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History" [A1] |
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| 14.03.2016 "140 anniversary of Lev Semyonovich Berg" [PS1] | 24.10.2019 "130 anniversary of National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History [A1] | |
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Notes
[PS1] Lev Semyonovich Berg (March 14, 1876, Bender – December 24, 1950) was a leading Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950. He also developed his own evolutionary theory (Nomogenesis) as opposed to the theories of Darwin and Lamarck. Studied both modern and prehistoric fishes, one of his most famous publication is "Classification of fishes, both recent and fossil" (1940). 1934-1950 - Director of the Laboratory of fossil fish of the Zoological Institute of the USSR in Leningrad More info is on WikipediaReferences:
[R1] More information about Moldova are on Wikipedia WikiTravel FlagCounter[R2 ] Some information about postal history of Moldova on Wikipedia
Links to Moldova post authority and stamps catalog websites are here
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