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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Stari Most (English: Old Bridge) is a 16th century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects two parts of the city. The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on November 9, 1993 during the Croat-Bosniak War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it, and the rebuilt bridge opened on July 23, 2004 The bridge spans the Neretva river in the old town of Mostar, the city to which it gave the name. The city is the fourth-largest in the country; it is the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the unofficial capital of Herzegovina. The Stari Most is hump-backed, 4 metres (13 ft 1 in) wide and 30 metres (98 ft 5 in) long, and dominates the river from a height of 24 m (78 ft 9 in). Two fortified towers protect it: the Helebija tower on the northeast and the Tara tower on the southwest, called "the bridge keepers" (natively mostari). |
| Face value | 1000 Dinar |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BA-HB 3 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BA-HB 4 Yvert et Tellier BA-HB 1B Stanley Gibbons BA-HB C4 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 1000000 |
| Issue date | 15/05/1993 |
| Designer | Ivica Šiško |
| Print technique | Offset lithography |
| Printed by | Zrinski Tiskarsko |
| Perforation | comb 14 |
| Height | 30.00 mm |
| Width | 36.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
