საქართველო (Sakartvelo) - Women Wooing

Here is another beautiful cover from Khatuna. Sadly, the cover was slightly crumpled, but anyway, what I was really after were the stamps!

Here we have issues that I can now cross off my want list:

• 2006 Europa CEPT: Integration in the Eyes of Young People
• 2008 Europa CEPT: Letter writing!
• 2003 Women for Peace: this issue pays tribute to UNIFEM, or the United Nations Development Fund for Women. UNIFEM provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies that promote womens' human rights, political participation and economic security. Since 1976 it has supported womens' empowerment and gender equality through its program offices and links with womens' organizations in the major regions of the world. This is probably the favorite UN branch of a devout feminist. Also, I can't help but notice that the two women in the depiction on the stamp seem to be wooing each other! Is it just me or are they really?

The other stamps are:

• 2006 Painting (Overprint)
• 2008 Fresco of King David IV of Georgia. In Georgia, King David IV is called Agmashenebeli (English: the builder) because he played an important role in regaining Georgia, expanding its terrain, and fending off the Christian lands from the Turkish Seljuk Sunni Muslim invaders in the 11th century. He is called "the builder" because he as able to not only regain Georgian lands from the invaders, but also because he was able to conquer parts of Armenia and Albania to include in the dominions of the Georgian kingdom.