Slovakia
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Width: 22 mm
Height: 27 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.00 x 13.00
Printing method: Offset lithography
Printer: Walsall Security Printers Ltd, Walsall, UK
Quantity printed: 2,000,000
Catalog number:
Scott 459
Michel SK 488
Stanley Gibbons SK 443
Yvert et Tellier SK 424
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXXX
Stamp ID = 9146
Ivan Gašparovič was the president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. Furthermore, in 1966 – 1989 he was also the Vice-chairman of the International Committee of the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Federation.
Stamp shows Ivan Gasparovic
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Slovakia (1939-45, 1993-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 5,393,016 (1997 estimate). Republic in central Europe. A part of the homeland of the Slavic Moravian Empire in the middle ages, Slovakia was conquered by the Magyars in the early 10th century and remained under Hungarian rule until 1918. With the defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Slovakia united with the Czech regions of Bohemia and Moravia to form the Republic of Czechoslovakia. When the country was occupied by Germany in 1939, Slovakia was established as a separate German puppet-state. The Soviet army liberated the country in 1945 and it again became part of Czechoslovakia. The post-war communist republic was dominated by Czechs, and old ethnic rivalries were revived. When Czechoslovakia began to democratize in 1989, Slovakia began to pursue an increasingly nationalist course. In 1992 Czech and Slovak political leaders agreed to dissolve the union, and on January 1, 1993, the two republics formally separated.