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Insect Stamp of Mauritania

Mauritania has about 3 times Japanese countries, but a ratio of a cultivated area area to occupy most to a land area in the Sahara Desert is 1%. Indigenous people Berber of North Africa began nomadism at the time in the tenth century, and an advance of a European got into full swing after the 17th century, and a French protectorate was settled in 1903. I became a self-government country in French Community in 1958 and became independent in 1960. But there was it in a military administration bottom until 90's since a coup d'etat occurred in 1978. A presidential election by political pluralism is performed in 1992, and democratization is firmly established.
As a first insect stamp of Mauritania, four kinds of butterfly normal stamps was issued in 1966.
The coconut palms protection commemorative stamp which drew Ladybird Beetle was issued in 1969.
Five kinds of the beetle normal stamps was issued in 1970.
12 stamps that had drawn the grasshopper, aphid, Ladybird beetle, and the moth were issued in 1989. It introduces five pieces in that.

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