Category:Stamps of the Free Territory of Trieste

The Free Territory of Trieste was an independent Republic existing from 15 September 1947 until 5 October 1954

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This territorial segmentation was established officially with the 15 September 1947 according to an additional protocol to the Treaty of Peace with Italy from 10 February 1947 ...in order to accommodate an ethnically and culturally mixed population in a neutral independent country.... Thereupon, the Free Territory of Trieste was official divided into two parts ("Zone A" and "Zone B"). In 1954 was each of these zones given to its neighbours Italy ("Zone A") and Yugoslavia ("Zone B"). This was formalized confirmed by the "Treaty of Osimo" of 1975 (ratified in 1977).

Stamps of the "Free Territory of Trieste" (Italian: "Territorio libero di Trieste") were initially the stamps of Italy with overprint "A.M.G - F.T.T." (= "Allied Military Government - Free Territory Trieste" = Zone A) or stamps of Italia, Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Slovenia with overprints "V.U.J.A." (= "Vojna uprava jugoslavenske Armije"), "Demokratska federativna Jugoslavija", "Istra" or similar (= for Zone B, Dalmatia, Fiume, Istria, Lubiana, Montenegro, and Trieste)).