Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations (151 page)

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. Latin was admissible, but not English, (a) The International Eucharistic Congress, 1932, and (b) The Holy Year of 1933–4: ‘In the Cross is Salvation’.

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. Postage stamps in the service of republican history – (a) 2p, mauve, 1937. ‘The constitution of Ireland’, which officially introduced the name of Éire – Hibernia turns the pages of history; (b) 2 1/2p black, 1941. twenty-fifth anniversary of the Easter Rising: a volunteer before Dublin’s General Post Office.

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. The centenary of the late President’s birth, 1982: 26p commemorative issue, ‘Eamon de Valera, 1882–1975’.

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. The Montenegrin Royal Family, Proclamation Day, 1910: in the foreground, reclining, is King Nikola’s grandson, Crown Prince Aleksandar of Serbia, subsequently the first king of Yugoslavia.

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. Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš (1841–1921): the first and only king of Montenegro – soldier, author, law-giver and exile.

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. King Nikola in exile: Antibes, France,
c.
1921. Montenegro, after annexation by Serbia, was the only Allied country to lose its independence after the First World War.

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. 3 nović red, from the country’s first issue in 1874; (
below left
) I nović blue and brown from the 200th anniversary series, 1896.

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. Stamps celebrating the fiftieth year of Nikola’s reign and the Proclamation of the Kingdom, 1910. (
left
) I para black, Nikola
magnoludovicien; (centre)
2 para purple, King Nikola and Queen Milena; (
right
) 5 para green, the King on horseback.

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.
Kalevipoeg
, ‘The Son of Kalevi’: Estonia’s foundation myth.

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. The
Pronkssödur
or ‘Bronze Soldier’: a Soviet war memorial, whose removal to a war cemetery in Tallinn caused the cyber war of 2007.

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. The pre-war Linda Monument: used in Soviet times as an unofficial memorial site for Estonians killed or deported by Stalin.