Insect Stamp of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country born with collapse of former Yugoslavia, but it is known even to have fallen into an intense civil war state in the process. The south Slav who was the roots of a Serb and the Croat in most countries a mountainous area was in the follower of Ottoman Turkey including domiciliation from the 15th century in the seventh century. In 1878, it became the Austria-Hungary protectorate and resisted because it was annexed in 1908, and the Austria Crown Prince assassination case that was a chance of World War it got up in Sarajevo in 1914. Serbia Croatia Slovenia kingdom was formed in 1918 and became the Yugoslavia kingdom in 1929, and it was it with the's best republic which constituted the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1963 from Yugoslavia federation people's republic from 1945. However, it entered into an intense civil war because it declared a sovereign state in 1991 and chose the independence in 1992. For the Muslim who expected united national maintenance, the Serb expected union with Serbia, and there was movement to expect unification with the Republic of Croatia in the Croat, and the civil war presented a complicated aspect. Because Bosnia and Herzegovina continued as a unitary state in 1995, it was signed an inclusion peace deal under the monitor of the multi-national peace enforcement corps of the NATO subject, and a cease-fire was formed.
One kind of stamp that describe an ant was issued by this Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006.
Three kinds of stamps that describe an insect as a European conservation of nature stamp were issued in 2009.


Bosnia and Herzegovina
2006.4.20 Ant Stamp
Red Wood Ant
Formica rufa
(Formicidae)


2009.9.9 European Nature Protection Stamp
Seven-spotted Ladybird
Coccinella septempunctata
(Coccinelidae)
Ruddy Darter
Sympetrum sanguineum
(Libellulidae)
European Stag Beetle
Lucanus cervus
(Lucanidae)


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