North Ossetia

North Ossetia-Alania, or Северная Осетия — Алания, is a republic of the Russian Federation. It is in the northern Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It's also right next to South Ossetia, if you can believe that.

While North Ossetia is a real place, it does not issue and never has issued its own stamps. The stamps supposedly being issued by it are not genuine. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with СЕВЕРНАЯ ОСЕТИЯ or '''СЕВ. ОСЕТИЯ''', that often included various topical images. Topical sheetlets, etc. have followed, inscribed as above, СЕВЕРНАЯ ОСЕТИЯ-АЛАНИЯ, NORTH OSSETIA or REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSETIA. There are also various bilingual inscriptions.  File:North Ossetia goat.jpg|Now, would a real post office use exactly the same design for different values? File:North ossetia turkey surch.jpg|Badly printed with different values surcharged on the same stamp design in the set of six. File:North Ossetia train.png|Yes, show us US locomotives, not North Ossetian ones. File:North Ossetia RHCP.jpg 

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