0197 Anniversary Cover 25 years from first Europa issue of Moldova Post

Sent: 29.12.2018

Received: 07.01.2019

Travel time 10 days

Sender: IMPS - Niall Murphy - the president of IMPS, thank you so much! Such great cover, celebrating 25 years from first issue Europa of Moldova Republic post! 

IMPS is an evolution of the highly successful project "MoldovaStamps", first developed by our President, Niall Murphy, in 2003 and developed continuously since then. MoldovaStamps succeeded in it's objective to be one of the best online single-country philatelic web sites in the world. It has enjoyed the support of people from over 160 countries and has earned a considerable reputation. MoldovaStamps is one of the most popular philatelic web sites in the world.

In March 2018, it was decided to evolve MoldovaStamps into an international philatelic society, with the primary objective of promoting world-wide awareness of Moldova, her history and culture, through the medium of philately.

Unlike traditional, formal philatelic societies with their strict rules and procedures, IMPS want to take a fresh, modern attitude. More info on link below.

You can become too member of International Moldovan Philatelic Society here http://www.moldovastamps.org/

0194 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Poste Srpske) Europa stamps cover

Sent: 02.06.2018
Received 11.06.2018
Travel time: 9 days

Sender Miro Jelecevic from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

About stamps - you can find more info here:

http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com/2018/04/bosnia-and-herzegovina-serb-post-2018.html

Serbian Post in BH official site: http://www.postesrpske.com

Wiki:

Pošte Srpske (full legal name: Preduzeće za poštanski saobraćaj Republike Srpske ad) is one of three companies responsible for postal service in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other two are BH Pošta and Hrvatska Pošta Mostar.

0134 Greece Flag of country FOTW79

Sent: 20.07.2017

Received: 03.08.2017

Travel time: 14 days

Sender myself from Hersonissos, Crete - from my holiday :)

https://postcardsmarket.com/product/greece-fw/

Wiki: The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "sky-blue-white" or the "blue-white" (Greek: Γαλανόλευκη or Κυανόλευκη), officially recognized by Greece as one of its national symbols, is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of Greece and Cyprus. The blazon of the flag is Azure, four bars Argent; on a canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second. The official flag ratio is 2:3. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since the late 1960s. It was officially adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus on 13 January 1822.

According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Ελευθερία" and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος".  The nine stripes are also said to represent the letters of the word "freedom" (Greek: ελευθερία). There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks).

Blue and white have been interpreted as symbolizing the colors of the famed Greek sky and sea.

0100-103 Moldova Rep MaxiCard & FDC Europa 2018

Sent: 08.02.2018

Received: 13.02.2018

Travel time: 5 days

Sender Ala Nicoreanu- a friend from Chisinau.The items were sent one from Pohorniceni, Orhei, and one from Ungheni, in the same day -day of first issue of emission.

The stamps are described also here: http://www.moldovastamps.org/ro/catalogue-stamps-issue.asp?issueID=3001

The Eiffel Bridge (Romanian: Podul Eiffel) is a bridge over the River Prut and a checkpoint between Moldova and Romania. The bridge is located between Ungheni and Ungheni, Iași.

On May 18 [O.S. May 6] 1872 a Russian diplomatic agent, Ivan Alekseevich Zinov'ev, and Gheorghe Costaforu signed a rail junction convention, which was ratified on January 21 [O.S. January 9] 1873.[1] and the Iaşi-Ungheni railway was opened on August 1, 1874. The railway Chişinău-Corneşti-Ungheni (built 1871–1875) was opened on June 1, 1875 by the Russian Empire in preparation for the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Ungheni customs were established in 1875 after putting into operation the Chişinău-Ungheni-Iaşi railroad. The railway Chişinău-Corneşti was already opened in 1873.

In 1876, after the spring flooding of the river Prut, the railway bridge that linked Bessarabia and Romania was almost destroyed. The Railway Department invited Gustave Eiffel to Bessarabia (Moldova) to redesign and rebuild the bridge, which was opened on April 21 [O.S. April 9] 1877, just three days before the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). On April 23 [O.S. April 11] 1877, Russian troops entered Romania at Ungheni and, the next day, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Today, the bridge remains a strategically positioned construction under the supervision of border guards.

In the nearby city of Iaşi, Gustave Eiffel also built the Grand Hotel Traian (1882).

The Pohorniceni bridge is a very old bridge built in a local traditional way, and it can be cross only by pedestrian. The bridge is crossing Raut river.

Răut, also referred to as Reut (Romanian: Răut, Ukrainian and Russian: Реут (Reut), Yiddish: רעװעט‎ (Revet)) is a river in Moldova, a right tributary of Dniester. Răut, generally navigable until 18-19th century, is navigable today only by small recreational boats.

The towns Bălți, Orhei and Florești are located by the river.