Kirikkale

Country: Turkey

Series: Definitive Postage Stamps, 2008, Turkish Provinces

Issued on: 28 May 2008

Format: Stamp

Emission: Definitive

Face value: 65 Turkish kuruş

 

Kırıkkale Province is a province of Turkey. It is located on the crossroads of major highways east of Ankara leading east to the Black Sea region. With its rapid population growth it has become an industrial center. The provincial capital is Kırıkkale.

Kırıkkale is a rapidly growing town in central Turkey, on the Ankara-Kayseri railway near the Kızılırmak River. Formerly a village, it owes its rapid rise in population mainly to the establishment of steel mills in the 1950s. These works, among the largest in the country, specialize in high-quality alloy steel and machinery. In the 1960s chemical plants were added.

 

Rock Partridge

Stamp issued on 8 May 2009.

The Rock Partridge, Alectoris graeca, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.
This partridge has its main (native) range in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, and is closely related and very similar to its eastern equivalent, the Chukar Partridge, A. chukar.
This is a resident breeder in dry, open and often hilly country. It nests in a scantily lined ground scrape laying 5-21 eggs. The Rock Partridge takes a wide variety of seeds and some insect food.
The Rock Partridge is a rotund bird, with a light brown back, grey breast and buff belly. The face is white with a black gorget. It has rufous-streaked flanks and red legs. When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly, but if necessary it flies a short distance on rounded wings.
It is very similar to the Chukar Partridge, but is greyer on the back and has a white, not yellowish foreneck. The sharply defined gorget distinguishes this species from Red-legged Partridge. The song is a noisy ga-ga-ga-ga-chakera- chakera- chakera.
This species is declining in parts of its range due to habitat loss and over-hunting. While it generally manages to hold its own, the status of the Sicilian population may be more precarious and certainly deserves attention (Randi 2006).

Henry Purcell

Country: Belgium

Series: Cultural life of Belgium - Masters of music

Issued on: 11 May 2009

Perforation:11 1/2

Size: 25.3 x 44 mm

Face value: 1 (Europa) € - Euro

Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 (?) – 21 November 1695), was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no other native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar.

This series of stamps commemorates the anniversaries of five composers famous all over the world. There are Henry Purcell (1659-1695), GF Handel (1685-1759), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) and Clara Schumann (1819-1896).

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