RHODESIA FIRST DAY COVER 9 FEB 1966 MAGULA POST OFFICE CANCELLED

THIS IS A RARELY SEEN RHODESIA FIRST DAY COVER DISPLAYING THE FIRST DEFINITIVE ISSUE STAMP ISSUES. IT HAS THE MANGULA (NORTHERN RHODESIA) POST OFFICE CIRCULAR CANCELS DATED 9 FEB 1966.
 
THE FIRST DEFINITE SERIES DISPLAYS STAMPS OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS, GEMS AND MINERALS, BIRDS, FISH AND WILDLIFE, FARMING AND CROPS UP TO THE HERALDRY 1 POUND STAMP IN TOP RIGHT CORNER.  ALL WITH THE PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER.
 
SIZE: 25,3CM WIDE 17,8CM HIGH
 
CONDITION: FEW SPOTS ON BACKSIDE OF COVER. FRONT IN VERY GOOD CONDITION
 
FIRST DAY COVER:
First Day Covers are envelopes affixed with a stamp or stamps on the first day that they are made available for sale to the public. On the first day of issue, the envelope is stamped with a postmark and cancellation indicating the date and location that the envelope was received into the postal service.
 
DEFINITE ISSUE:
A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period of time and designed to serve the everyday postal needs of the country.
 
FROM SOUTHERN RHODESIA TO ZIMBABWE:
The Rhodesian British colony was established in 1923, having earlier been occupied, constructed and administered by the British South Africa Company and its sub-concessionaires who were mostly British subjects. In 1953, it was merged into the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It consisted of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi). It collapsed however in 1963 because of the impending independence of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1964, as well as because of mounting African hostility to it in all the three territories.
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Southern Rhodesia who was a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923. It was the first unilateral break from the United Kingdom since the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.  The Rhodesian Bush War a guerrilla conflict between the government and two rival communist-backed black Rhodesian groups, began in earnest two years later. Amid near-complete international isolation, Rhodesia continued as an unrecognised state with the assistance of South Africa. After several attempts to end the war Smith concluded the Internal Settlement with non-militant nationalists in 1978. Under these terms the country was reconstituted under black rule as Zimbabwe Rhodesia in June 1979, but this new order was rejected by the guerrillas. It was only after Rhodesia revoked its Unilateral Declaration of Independance that peace followed after the Lancaster House Agreement in December 1979. Following a brief period of direct British rule, the country was granted internationally recognised independence under the name Zimbabwe in 1980.
 
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