Insect Stamp of Italy

Italy holds the Vatican City State in the Rome neighboring in boots which stuck out of the Mediterranean Sea-shaped Italian peninsula and Sicily country comprising 70 islands. Imperial government Rome is formed in B.C. 27. It split into east and west in 395, and Western Roman Empire was ruined in 476. The east Goth invaded it afterward and passed through Franco kingdom, rule of Holy Roman Empire and greeted the tn. nation flooding times after the twelfth century. Renaissance culture prospered of the 16th century from the 15th century. The 19th century began, and independence / the general time rose, and a kingdom was born in 1861, and unification realized it in 1870 when it passed through war with Austria. Birth of Mussolini Cabinet is 1922. It concluded the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan and Germany in 1937 and fought in the axle side in World War II, but collapsed in coup d'etat of 1943. It passed through an unconditional surrender to the allied powers side and adopted the Imperial rule abolition by a referendum of 1946 and started as a republic in 1948.
One kind of stamp which it drew a bee on was issued by this Italy in 1953. Three kinds of stamps comprising two kinds of stamps which it drew one kind of stamp which it drew European Stag Beetle on and a flower on were issued in 2002 year.

Republic of Italy
1953.4.30 Insect Stamp
Western Honeybee
Apis mellifera
(Apidae)


2002.10.11 Insect Stamp
European Stag Beetle
Lucanus cervus
(Lucanidae)


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