Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically situated as part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The island was settled by…
View More DominicaThe 1929 Airmail Stamps of India will be presented by Mr. Markand Dave, FRPSL, philatelist, author, and will be hosted by the American Philatelic Society.
View More Stamp Chats: The 1929 Airmail Stamps of IndiaJoin us as North Toronto Stamp Club‘s Mattia Guida takes you on a virtual philatelic trip to Italy. You will be touring the region around Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples, through a selection of postage stamps issued about different places in his hometown area.
View More NTSC Presents: Philatelic Tour of Italy’s Sorrento RegionWe are living in unprecedented times. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted most aspects of normal life worldwide, including the delivery of mail. Today’s mail will be tomorrow’s postal history. This presentation by the North Toronto Stamp Club provides an overview of COVID-19-related philately, including mail and mail delivery, stamp issues,…
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Mauritania (Mauritanie) derives its name from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BCE into the 7th century CE in the modern-day Morocco and West Algeria. France laid claim to the territories of present-day Mauritania from the Senegal River area and northwards, starting in the…
View More MauritaniaBurkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it gained full independence on 5 August 1960. The country was renamed Burkina Faso on 4 August 1984. L
View More Burkina FasoJutland (Jylland , known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri, respectively. West Jutland is characterised by open lands, heaths, plains and…
View More Denmark: West JutlandZealand or Sealand (Sjælland) is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Administratively, Zealand is divided between two Danish regions: The Copenhagen metropolitan area and North Zealand belong to the Capital Region, while the major and more rural…
View More Denmark: South and West ZealandThe Republic of Upper Volta (République de Haute-Volta) was a landlocked West African country established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960, it attained full independence…
View More Republic of Upper VoltaSouthern Jutland (Sønderjylland) is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The region north of the Kongeå is called Nørrejylland, ‘Northern Jutland’. Both territories had their own ting assemblies in the Middle Ages (in Viborg and…
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