T1 50 g responds to the rate of postage of the 1st class up to 50 g - domestic servis. © Slovak post, 2008 Under the threat of the Turks and prior to their invasion of Hungary, the monarch’s court issued an edict to build strategic postal lines. The postal line linking Vienna with Bratislava was developed by Matej Taxis in 1530 based on the court’s instruction. At that time, the Bratislava postmaster was Peter Paár. He later became the Postmaster General in charge of the greater part of Slovakia. Meanwhile, it was ordered due to exigent strategic reasons to extend the postal line between Vienna - Bratislava further to the East towards Transylvania. The line ran across the Váh river region (Považie) and continued further across the foothills of the Carpathian mountain range to Levoča, Prešov, and Košice. In the period 1553 – 1555 the line was finally extended from Košice to Transylvania. This postal road was used by the army during 1552 – 1558, and subsequently became one of the most significant civic postal roads in the part of Hungary unoccupied by the Turks. Štefan Kollár