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Sunday, August 28, 2011

YUGOSLAVIA, a country where various ethnic groups and religions did not BEAR with each other for long. I show you WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards with The BROWN BEAR (Ursus arctos)


"The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family[2]and as the largest land-based predator.[3]

There are several recognized subspecies within the brown bear species. In North America, two types are generally recognized, the coastal brown bear and the inland grizzly, and the two types could broadly define all brown bear subspecies. Grizzlies weigh as little as 350 lb (159 kg) in Yukon, while a brown bear, living on a steady, nutritious diet of spawning salmon, from coastal Alaska and Russia can weigh 1,500 lb (682 kg). The exact number of overall brown subspecies remains in debate.
While the brown bear's range has shrunk, and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN, with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its principal range countries are Russia, the United States (mostly in Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania, but also UkraineSlovakia, and so on), the BalkansSweden and Finland, where it is the national animal. The brown bear is the most widely distributed of all bears."

"Yugoslavia (MacedonianCroatianSerbianSloveneJugoslavijaCyrillic: Југославија) refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans, during most of the 20th century."

Legacy


State and entities on the former territory of Yugoslavia, 2008.

New states

Countries created from the former Yugoslavia:

Name

Capital

Flag
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg
CroatiaZagreb
Flag of Croatia.svg
MacedoniaSkopje
Flag of Macedonia.svg
MontenegroPodgorica
Flag of Montenegro.svg
Serbia
Kosovo[a]
Belgrade
Priština

Flag of Serbia.svg

Flag of Kosovo.svg
SloveniaLjubljana
Flag of Slovenia.svg



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3 comments:

  1. That's a nice set of stamps. They don't look like the bears we have here (black bears).

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  2. Fine stamps for magnificent animals.

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  3. Great stamps! The bears always look majestic and iconic in picture but I know for sure I'd pee my pants in person in nature with them.

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