KINGDOM OF ILLYRIA AND ROMAN GALLEY

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Slovenia issued in 2016 a stamp for the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the kingdom of Illyria, the stamp shows us the coat of arms of the kingdom, which depict a watercraft. It is a Roman galley which appeared on Roman coins for the area.
The Kingdom of Illyria was an important state entity founded in 1816 following the dissolution of the (Napoleonic) Illyrian Provinces and functioning as a transitional administrative entity until incorporation into the new administrative system of the Austrian Empire. The Kingdom of Illyria was last mentioned in 1849 as a crown land consisting of Carniola, Carinthia, the county of Gorizia, Trieste and Istria. The process of formation of the Kingdom of Illyria, which was actually divided into two administrative districts with centres in Trieste and Ljubljana, saw the active participation of the Slovene philologist Jernej Kopitar and Baron Sigmund Zois, a patron of the arts, who worked closely with the Austrian chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich. The decision of Emperor Francis I of Austria ran contrary to Metternich’s plans to strengthen individual provincial autonomies and was instead aimed at centralisation of the Empire. Despite this, the state entity had an important function in the administrative arrangements of part of the Slovene lands following the Napoleonic Wars and the Illyrian Provinces, while from the point of view of the ecclesiastical order it should also be pointed out that the Archbishop of Gorizia became the Metropolitan of Illyria during the period of the Kingdom of Illyria.

Slovenia 2016 0.42 Euro, sg?, scott?
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