The stamp commemorates the 150.th anniversary of the Slovak nation's first autonomous body of political representation, which came into existence in the revolution of 1848-49. It was at the beginning of 1848 that in the then Hungary, as in the majority of European countries, a revolution broke out which would abolish feudal privileges and usher in a bourgeois society. However, the Hungarian revolutionary government, headed by Lajos Kossuth, refused to grant equality to the nationalities within the country, and the Slovak's revolutionary programme (known as the Petition of the Slovak Nation) was met with repressive measures against the nation's leaders. This...