Postage stamps and postal history of Moldova

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 Moldovan Declaration of Independence, 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.

First stamps

The first stamps of independent Moldova were designed by Grigoriy Bronza and issued in 1991.

See also

* Grigoriy Bronza
* Poşta Moldovei
* Postage stamps and postal history of Romania
* Postage stamps and postal history of Russia
* Postage stamps and postal history of Transnistria
* Zimbrul și Vulturul

External links

International Moldovan Philatelic Society (IMPS) - Online Catalogue of the Stamps and Postal History of Moldova

Stamps of the World (SOTW) Catalogue for Moldova

Linn's Stamp News Refresher Course

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