Exhibit in Trieste highlights the Postal History of the East

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 26 NOV - The exhibit's goal is to reconstruct, through postal documents, lesser-known aspects of the history of Italy's eastern territories. With this objective in mind, the "Postal History of Friuli, Venezia Giulia, and Dalmatia" exhibition opened today at the Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Mitteleuropa in Trieste.
    According to Poste Italiane, the exhibition has become a periodic event where members of the Postal History Association of Friuli and Venezia Giulia display selected pieces from their collections. The association, founded in 2002, aims to unite and deepen knowledge of the postal history of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Its members include collectors and scholars from Germany and Slovenia.
    On display are overprinted stamps from 1947 that narrate the transition from the Allied occupation of Venezia Giulia (1945-47) to the establishment of the Free Territory of Trieste (1947-54). Also featured are commercial correspondence from Zadar between 1918 and 1943, the last Austrian postal issues used in the Gorizia area until the end of World War I, and the subsequent annexation of Venezia Giulia to Italy.
    Additionally, there are stamps and postal documents from the B zone of Venezia Giulia, which was under Yugoslav occupation at the end of World War II.
    "The aim is to promote philately and postal history, seeking to engage a curious audience eager to learn more about the origins of the vast world of communications, in which the postal service plays a leading role," explained Poste Italiane.
    The exhibition is open to the public until January 18, from Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 1 PM. (ANSA).