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First Urban Refugee Settlements (8/2022)
After the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922, a landmark date in modern Greek history, a new Greece was created. The wave of refugees caused by the end of the Greco-Turkish War, and then by the agreement between Greece and Turkey on the compulsory exchange of populations, was unprecedented in world history. Hellenic Post circulates a new Commemorative Series of stamps «FIRST URBAN REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS», which depict the country’s first and most important urban refugee settlements, in Vyronas, Kaisariani, Nea Ionia and Kokinia. They were founded in 1923 and housed a significant number of the refugees who arrived by boat at the port of Piraeus. They are among the dozens of refugee settlements that were created during the 1920s and formed a ring of urban housing around Athens and Piraeus.
Menelaos Charalambidis, Doctor of History, University of Athens
The Set of stamps is printed in the following denominations and quantities:
Issue Date: 14 September 2022
Withdrawal Date: 13 September 2024
Design: Myrsini Vardopoulou
Stamp Format:: 35 X 45 mm
Sheet layout: Sheet of 25
Printing process: 2 colors (OFFSET)
Printer: VERIDOS MATSOUKIS S.A. SECURITY PRINTING
The Hellenic Post wishes to thank Dr Menelaos Charalambidis, Mr. Loukas Christodoulou, President of the Center for the Study and Promotion of Asia Minor Culture of the Nea Ionia Municipality, the ERT Archive, the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece and the Archive of Amateur Audiovisual Material “Of the Anonymous”, for their contribution to the issue of the Series.
Parts of the stamps design are inspired by archival photographic material.
The following philatelic products are available with the Series:
The stamps and the FDC sets will be available from the date of their release until 13 September 2024, unless previously sold out. The Numbered Set Packs will be available as long as stocks last.
Collectors can have their philatelic items franked with the special commemorative first day of issue postmark by sending their postal items to the Philatelic Service (100 Aiolou St, second floor, 101 88 Athens), provided stamps from the set with a minimum value of 0,90 € are affixed to them. Please mark the envelope “PHILATELIC ITEMS”.
FROM THE PHILATELIC SERVICE