Date of issue: 11 November 2010

Jazygians, a people of Alan origin, arrived in the Kingdom of Hungary accompanying the Turkic people, the Cumans, fleeing from the Mongols advancing in the early 13th century, in 1239. The Jazygians who settled here from the start had their centre in present-day Jazygia, but ethnic groups of varying sizes also made their home in other parts of historic Hungary, for example, Jászfalu (Komárom county) and Udal (Bars county). Linguistic records suggest that the Jazygians belonged to the Indo-Iranian tribe of Indo-European peoples, and within that to the Iranians of the steppes. Their original name az/i acquired the initial j sound from Slav or Turkic Chuvash sources. The Jazygians are thus linguistically related to today’s Iranian people.

In the 19th century contact between the two countries became frequent thanks to the work of great travellers and researchers. Alexander Csoma de Kőrös spent a couple of years in Teheran and mastered Persian on his way to India and Tibet. The life’s work of Arminius Vámbéry is more closely associated with Turkology, but in the early 1860s he also visited Persia. He wrote a highly enjoyable, sarcastic and humorous travelogue of his impressions, capturing Iran in a 19th-century, romantic light. Among the Hungarian travellers to Iran, the shining star of Hungarian Oriental studies was the 20th-century Aurel Stein. The scientist conducted excavations at several locations in Western Iran in the 1930s.

The Jazygian Museum aided Magyar Posta in the work of designing the stamp. The Museum was opened on 24 December 1874. It plays an influential role in the cultural life of Jászberény and Jazygia. It provides expert support for clubs popularising local knowledge of the area, and the work of local history collections and local peasant house museums. It co-operates with Jazygia’s cultural and educational institutions and civil bodies. Each year its permanent and temporary exhibitions are seen by some twenty thousand visitors, but the museum also organises a variety of popular and highly successful events. In 1999 it won the title Museum of the Year. Source: Jász Múzeum  magy-ir.hu  museum.hu

On the HUF 80 stamp there are Termeh motifs from Yazd and on the HUF 240 stamp Jazygian embroidery motifs are shown.The background printing of both stamps has the colours of the national flag of the respective country, and the inscriptions are in both Hungarian and Persian. The first day cover for the set is adorned by Jazygian embroidery (tulips and rosemary with eagle talons). The commemorative postmark employs a graphic combination of the Hungarian and Iranian motifs of the stamps.

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Order code: 2010230050211 (set) 2010230060012 (FDC)
Number of copies: 350,000 sets
Perforated size: 40 x 30 mm, 50 stamps/sheet
Date of issue: 10 November 2010
Printed by Pénzjegynyomda
Total face value: HUF 320
Designed by Barnabás Baticz

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