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Insect Stamp of Syria Arab Republic

Syria which often became a battlefield prospered in Middle East war as a strategic point of east and west interchange of commerce / culture from the ancient times, and going Islam was planned after the seventh century by an Arab, and it was ruled in Ottoman Turkey from the 16th century, and it was put in a French mandatory administration bottom after the World War I. Independence is 1946, but it form Egypt and the United Arab Republic in 1958, and it is about 1961 that it cancel them and became the current Syrian Arab Republic. Independence was the history of an opposition with Israel afterward and, by the third Middle East war of 1967, was robbed of Golan Heights by Israel. Existing President Assad was born in 1971 and broke off relations temporarily with Egypt which started Israel and talks and did an Arabic strongest hardliner route. It invite U.S. President and, after former Soviet Union collapse, show a change in diplomatic posture.
Serial printed postage stamp which drawed five kinds of insects was issued in 1982 by this Syria.

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