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     The stamp shows the map of Greece in 1830 and in 1930.

SCN 359

     In 1977 Greece issued a stamp showing the dispersion of Greeks on a world map. f Greece is highlighted in the center of the stamp.

SCN 1236

     On a stamp issued in 1978 there is a map of Chalcidice, a large three-fingered penninsula in the Aegean Sea. Aristotle's birthplace, Stagira, is circled on the map. Aristotle's name appears in the last line of the inscription on the base of a statue of Attalus. The inscription (in Greek), η. Χ. 322 - 1978, indicates the 2300 years since Aristotle's death.

SCN 1259

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