This is a survey of the

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s and postal history of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

History

The

Principality of Serbia The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation wa ...

began to issue its own stamps in 1866. Serbia was elevated to the status of a

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in 1881.

World War I

During the First World War, the territory of Serbia was under Austro-Hungarian occupation. Stamps of Bosnia and Herzegovina overprinted "Serbien" were issued for Serbia. File:StampAustriaSerbia1916Michel42.jpg, Postage stamp for Serbia under Austro-Hungarian occupation , 1916

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

In 1920, its postal system was merged with the postal system of the former Austro-Hungarian territories with which it formed the

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom commonly refers to: * A monarchy ruled by a king or queen * Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy Kingdom may also refer to: Arts and media Television * ''Kingdom'' (British TV series), a 2007 British television drama s ...

, later the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

World War II

After the

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established the

Government of National Salvation The Government of National Salvation ( sr, Влада народног спаса, Vlada narodnog spasa, (VNS); german: Regierung der nationalen Rettung), also referred to as Nedić's government (, ) and Nedić's regime (, ), was the colloquial na ...

in 1941, it issued its own stamps until 1944. Initially, Yugoslavian stamps were simply overprinted in German with the word ''Serbien''. Later regular issues were inscribed both ''Serbien'' and ''Србија'' (Serbia). File:StampSerbia1941Michel1.jpg, A Yugoslav stamp overprinted ''Serbien'' in 1941 File:StampSerbia1941Michel47.jpg, Postage stamp for Serbia under German occupation in 1941

Post war

From 1944 onwards, Serbia was again part of

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

Modern Serbia

Upon the dissolution of the union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, Serbia began issuing its own stamps once more. The Post of Serbia issues the country's stamps.

References

* Derocco, E. ''Istorija poštanskih maraka Srbije = History of the postage stamps of Serbia''. 1973, 98p. * Fleck, Vladimir. ''Die Briefmarken von Serbien''. Frankfurt am Main: rbeitsgemeinschaft Neues Handbuch der Briefmarkenkunde 1965, 31p. * Kardosch, Velizar M. ''The Principality of Serbia : postal history and postage stamps, 1830-1882''. Romanshorn: V.M. Kardosch, 1996 , 381p. * Rasic, Mirko R. ''The Postal History and Postage Stamps of Serbia''. New York?: Pub. by The Theodore E. Steinway Memorial Publication Fund, 1979, 276p. * Rodgers, E. W. ''The Serbian Stamp of Death''. Brantford, Ont.: Canadian Wholesale Supply, 1977, 20p. * Smeth, Paul de. ''Les Timbres de La Principauté de Serbie (1866 à 1880)''. Amiens: Yvert, 1927, 54p. * Walshe, M. O'C. ''The Obrenovich Stamps of Serbia (1866-1904)''. London: Published by "Stamp Collecting," at the Vallancy Press, Ltd., 1929, 36p.

External links

Serbian Stamps 1941-1943
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