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Insect Stamp of Austria

Most of a country of Austria is in Alps mountainous area, and the Danube runs in. Austria became possession place of the House of Hapsburg from the latter half in the thirteenth century and because the above-mentioned family monopolized the Throne of Holy Roman Empire, Vienna did a center of Holy Roman Empire and prospered. Prime minister Metternich appeared afterwards, and Austria-Hungary empire was formed in 1867. Imperial government collapsed with World War I defeat of 1917 and shifted to a republic, and Hungary, Czechoslovakia which It ruled over became independent and Polish handed over a territory to Romania, Yugoslavia, and it was it with a current border. It was occupied the division, but It restore sovereignty in 1955 and reach U.S., British, French, Soviet Union as a neutral country at the present in eternity by Austria is annexed in 1938 by Nazis Germany, and having been defeated by World War II.
the beautiful stamp of intaglio printing which drew Colorado Beetle as a 6th international vegetable protection meeting commemorative stamp from Austria in 1967 was issued.
One kind of stamp which it drew a beetle on was each issued in 2007 and 2009.
One kind of self-adhesive which it drew an insect on was each issued in 2008 and 2009.

Although Colorado Beetle is the large noxious insect of a potato and the wild department plant of an eggplant was eaten at first in the Rockies in the United States, exploitation of the western United States progressed, when the field was made to the foot of the Rockies, damage began to appear from from to the potato, and damage spread further. In recent years, it has moved also to Europe, such as Germany. Colorado Beetle is drawn also on the stamp of Hungary and Turkey .

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