Transnistria

Transnistria, or Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) is a de facto country located between Moldova and Ukraine. It is also:
 * Moldovan: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ
 * Romanian: Republica Moldovenească Nistreană
 * Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка, or ПМР

History

 * The region was occupied by Romanian forces who established a government from August 1941 to January 1944, issuing stamps.
 * Transnistria declared independence in November 1991. In June 1992, the post office in Tiraspol overprinted Russian stamps, but these were suppressed by Moldovan authorities.
 * In December 1993, Transnistria issued its first stamp, an imperf 12r stamp with the country's coat of arms. Since then, all of its stamps have been inscribed ПОЧТА ПМР.
 * In the late 1990s, some stamps were additionally inscribed DMR.
 * About 2005, instead of DMR, stamps began to have the additional inscription PMR.
 * Since its beginnings, bogus issues for Transnistria have appeared, including fake overprints on Russian stamps.

For international mail, Transnistrian mail carries both their stamps for local carriage and Moldovan stamps for carriage beyond.

 File:Duca Voda.JPG|Romanian occupation issue. File:StampTiraspol1992.jpg|The two Tirasol provisionals of 1992. File:PMR first FDC.jpg|PMR first issue with label, first day cancel. File:2020 cavalry.jpg|2020 stamp with two abbreviations. 

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