History of Aland
The Aland islands - the archipelago located at an input to gulf of Bothnia at southwest coast of Finland. Aland - the self-coping territory of Finland named on-finski Ahvenanmaa and Oland - on-shvedski. With the flag, capital and parliament. And indelible traces of Russian history… Since 1954 the Aland islands have the sine-yellow-red Scandinavian flag. In 1984 on Alandah have started to let out the stamps which though operate at correspondence departure in any point of Finland and the world, but are on sale only on the Aland islands.