ISSUE 185 - May 1, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Fabulous Firsts:
Germany (January 1, 1872)
By B. W. H. Poole
Germany (from the Latin Germania) is the English name of the country which the natives call Deutschland and the French L’Allemagne. It occupies the central portion of Europe and is bounded by the North Sea, the Danish Peninsula, the Baltic, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. [In 1913, when this was written] its area was 211,168 square miles, or about one-sixteenth of that of all Europe—slightly larger than France, but about twice as large as . . .
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