Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia or officially Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia was part of Hungarian kingdom in Austo-Hungary and Dalmatia was part of it in name only de facto being a part of Austrian kingdom .
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| Map Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia |
Hungarian Postal system was in charge of postal services in Croatia according to Croatian-Hungarian Settlement(Hrvatsko-ugarska nagodba) of 1868. Therefore Postal cancels from regular posts and from Postal agencies were bilingual in Hungarian and Croatian language.
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia was made of 8 counties in Croatian -Županija or in Hungarian VARMEGYE.
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| Counties of Croatia-Slavonia in 1908 |
In Croatia-Slavonia auxiliary postal offices also called Postal Agencies were all opened after 1900. Such post offices were opened in small places whose postal activity was insufficient for regular post to be opened but still needed some postal coverage.
Postal agencies were run by local teacher, priest,
merchant or some other person that seemed reliable to Postal officials.
If place had a Railway station then the station manager was in charge of
Postal agency. Whoever run the Postal agency had to pass exam
in Postal manipulation rules.
POSTAL CANCELS
Only one type of postal cancel was used in all agencies, they differ in size and text but all cancels are similar in appearance.
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| Typical Postal Agency cancel in Croatia-Slavonia |
Cancels have written on top the name of the Postal agency(same as the name of place where it is located) sometimes there is note in which county is this place located as many names are similar. This is noted by letters VM- abbreviated from VARMEGYE -county in Hungarian or letters ŽUP. short for county in Croatian - ŽUPANIJA. If agency was located on Railway station cancel has a abbreviation KOL. or KLDV short for Croatian Kolodvor= Station.
In second row the date is applied . Mostly in order : year, month, day but in some cases order is day, month, year. After date there is abbreviaton d.e or d.u this notes if cancel was applied in the morning or in the afternoon of the day ,it comes from Hungarian:
d.e. -delelott means in the morning (Croatian - prijepodne)
d.u.- delutan means in the afternoon (Croatian-poslijepodne).
In the next row are hunagarian word POSTAI UGYN. this is short for Postai ügynökség - meaning: postal agency .
In the last row is Croatian for postal agency - POŠTAN.(SKA) AGENCIJA
In total there were 191 Postal agencies in Kingdom of Croatia - Slavonia , some of them used 2 cancels during their existence so the total number of cancels is around 220 cancels (222?). Sometimes name in the cancel changed this is noted the list below , sometimes cancel was replaced with new one but the text stayed the same, this is noted by new year in the list .
Postal rule was that Postal agency cancel was not to be applied over stamps but next to them. Stamps were to be cancelled in nearby regular post office that collected mail from postal agency. This was done to prevent possible frauds with mail. This rule was mostly ignored and stamps were often cancelled with postal agency canceller.
The only source of information about postal agencies that I know is Dragutin Cividin book "Poštanski manipulativni žigovi Hrvatske 1755-1918".
Portion of the postal agencies continued to work after the dissolution of Austro-Hungary in the new SHS/Yugoslavia postal system , some of them used old cancels , some of them adapted cancel by removing Hungarian text and some were issued new cancels with time.
Below follows alphabetical list of postal agencies in Croatia - Slavonia , after it follow 2 short lists of Postal agencies in Međimurje and Croatian Baranya that are today part of Croatia . During Austro-Hungary those places and their postal agencies were part of Hungary and used Hungarian cancels which are similar to ones used in Croatia but without Croatian text .
LIST OF POSTAL AGENCIES IN THE KINGDOM OF CROATIA-SLAVONIA
Pictures of cancels A-Ć , D-F , G-K , L-NJ , O-Š , T-Ž .
PICS LAST UPDATE: February 2024: 71 Agencies , with 72 different cancels
1)ADAŠEVCI P.U.KLDV - 1916
2)ALJMAŠ:a)ALMAŠ ŽUP.VIROVITICA VM -1909, b)ALJMAŠ - 1914
3)BAČUGA - 1912.
4)BAKARAC - 1909
5)BAŠKE OŠTARIJE: a)OŠTARIJE/ ŽUP LIKA-KRBAVA VM.-1909, b)BAŠKE OŠTARIJE - 1914
6)BEBRINA - 1908
7)BEDENICA - 1904
8)BEDENIK - 1904
9)BEGTEŽ - 1909
10)BELEGIŠ- 1914
11)BEREK - 1911
12)BJELOPOLJE - 1914
13)BOROVO - 1909
14)BOVIĆ - 1914
15)BREGANA - 1914
16)BREZNICA NAŠIČKA:a)BREZNICA NJEMAČKA- 1912, b)NAŠIČKA BREZNICA - 1914
17)BRODSKI STUPNIK: a)STUPNIK SLAVONSKI -1909, b)BRODSKI STUPNIK - 1913
18)CAPRAG - 1915
19)CIGLENIK- 1915
20)CRKVENI BOK - 1914
21)CRNAC ŽUP.VIROVITIČKA - 1909
22)ČANAK - 1915
23)ČORTANOVCI - 1909
24)ČRNKOVCI: a)CRNKOVCI KOL. 1906 , b)ČRNKOVCI -1914
25)ČUKOVEC - ?
26)DAPCI: a)DABCI - 1914 , b)DAPCI - ?
27)DAVOR - 1909
28)DEČ - 1913
29)DONJE PAZARIŠTE -1914
30)ČAGLIĆ – 1909
31)(DONJI) JAVORANJ - 1913
32)DONJI MOSTI - ?
33)DRENJE – 1909(1906?)
34)DUBRAVA ŽUP.VARAŽDIN - 1908
35)GJELEKOVAC - 1908
36)ERNESTINOVO - 1908
37)FARKAŠEVAC - 1907
38)GAJ ŽUP.POŽEGA VM. - 1913
39)GALGOVO - 1912
40)GALOVAC - 1910
41)GAŠPARCI - 1905
42)GORNJA ČEMERNICA:a)ČEMERNICA - 1911, b)GORNJA ČEMERNICA -1914
43)(GORNJA) GLOGOVICA – 1913
44)GORNJA PLOČA: a)PLOČA – 1908, b)GORNJA PLOČA – 1914
45)GORNJA STUBICA: a)STUBICA GORNJA – 1905, b)GORNJA STUBICA - 1914
46)GORNJE DUBRAVE: a)DUBRAVE GORNJE – 1907, b)GORNJE DUBRAVE – 1913
47)GORNJI VAGANAC – 1915
48)GRGUREVCI – 1907
49)GRK – 1904 (danas Višnjićevo , Srijem)
50)GUŠĆE -1908
51)HLEBINE – 1905
52)HRASTOVAC – 1911
53)HRASTOVICA – 1908
54)HRELJIN – 1907
55)HRVATSKI BLAGAJ – 1911
56)HUMLJANI P.U. - KLDV – 1918
57)ILAČA – 1915
58)JADRANOVO: SVETI JAKOV ŠILJEVICA – 1916
59)JALŽABET - 1910
60)JARAK -1909
61)JAZAK - 1910
62)JASENICE: JESENICE -1902
63)DOLNJE JELENJE – 1909
64)KAMANJE – 1914
65)KAŠINA – 1907
66)KAŠT – 1911(1905?)
67)KLENOVNIK – 1914
68)KLOKOĆEVCI NAŠIČKI – 1913(1914?)
69)KOPRIVNIČKI BREGI – BREGI P.U-KLDV.ŽUP.B-K.VM. - 1913
70)KOSTEL – 1914
71)KOSTRENA:a)KOSTRENA SVETA LUCIJA – 1907, b)SVETA LUCIJA - 1914
72)KRASICA – 1908
73)KRASNO – 1911
74)KRATEČKO – 1914
75)KRČEDIN – 1907
76)KREŠTELOVAC – 1909
77)KUKUNJEVAC – 1911
78)KUŽELJ – 1908
79)LASLOVO-KOROG – 1912
80)LEDINCI – 1913
81)LIČ – 1906
82)LOBOR – 1909
83)LOVAS – 1908
84)LUŽANI - 1913
85)LJUBEŠČICA – 1907
86)MAJA – 1907
87)MALA VAŠICA - 1913
88)MALI GRADAC – 1907
89)MARGEČAN – 1916
90)NAŠIČKI MARKOVAC - ?
91)MARKUŠICA – 1913
92)MARTIJANEC 1908
93)MARKUŠICA – 1913
94)MARTINSKA VES – 1909
95)MEDARI: a)MEDARE-DRAGALIĆ – 1913, b)MEDARIDRAGALIĆ – 1916
96)MOLVE – 1909
97)MOŠĆENICA: a)MOŠĆENICA - 1908b)MOSĆENICA – 1911
98)MRZLA VODICA - ?
99)(NOVA) RAČA ŽUP.BJELOVAR-K.VM. - 1906
100)NOVI BANOVCI – 1914
101) NOVO SELO BILAJSKO:
a)NOVOSELO LIKA KRBAVA VM.ŽUP / LIČKO KRBAVSKA – 1909
b)BILAJSKO NOVOSELO – 1914
102)ODRA – 1909
103)OREHOVICA ŽUP.VARASD.VM. - 1912
104)OSJEČKI-ANTUNOVAC / P.U.- KLDV. - 1914
105)OSTROVO P.U.KLDV. - 1915
106)OŠTARIJE
a)OŠTARIJE / ZUP.MODRUS FIUME VM – 1908
b)OŠTARIJE ŽUP./ MODRUŠ-FIUME VM - 1911
107)PAVLOVAC-DRAŽICA – 1913
108)PERJASICA – 1909.
109)PEŠČENICA – 1914
110)PETERANEC – 1913
111)PETRIJANEC – 1904
112)PETROVINA – 1903
113)PLATIĆEVO – 1909
114)PLEMENITAŠ-1913
115)PLITVIČKA JEZERA – 1913
116)PODLAPAC -a)1907 i b)1910(?)
117)SESVETE PODRAVSKE – 1911
118)PODVINJE – 1908
119)POLJANA – 1912
120)POSAVSKI BREGI: a)BREGI – 1907 , b)POSAVSKI BREGI – 1913
121)(Požeški) BRESTOVAC – 1913
122)PRESPA – 1914
123)PRILIŠĆE: a)PRILIŠĆE DOLNJE - 1909 , b)DONJE PRILIŠĆE - 1914
124)PRIMIŠLJE – a)1903 i b)1909
125)PUŠĆA-BISTRA P.U.KLDV. - 1914
126)RAČINOVCI – 1909
127)RADOBOJ – 1918
128)MUČNA-RIEKA P.U.KLDV. - 1913
129)RETKOVCI – 1911
130)RIJENCI – a)1907 i b)1911
131)SVETI-ROK - 1912
132)RUŠEVO - 1909
133)SABORSKO - 1911
134)SIGETEC -1916
135)SIKIREVCI - 1913
136)SKAKAVAC - 1910
137)(SLAVONSKI) KOBAŠ - 1909
138)SOLJANI - 1905
139)SOPOT - 1914
140)SOT - 1913
141)STAJNICA - 1907
142)STARI JANKOVCI: JANKOVCI - 1905
143)STARI SLANKAMEN - 1909
144)STARIGRAD: a)STARIGRAD ŽUP. / LIKA-KRB. -1906, b)DONJI STARIGRAD - 1914
145)STAZA - 1911
146)STENJEVEC - 1915
147)SUSEK - 1909
148)SVETA NEDJELJA: a)SVETA NEDJELJA – 1909, b)SVETA-NEDJELJA - 1918
149)ŠEMOVEC - 1918
150)ŠESTINE - 1911
151)ŠIMATOVO - 1909
152)ŠIROKA KULA - 1910
153)ŠKRLJEVO - 1907
154)ŠLJIVOŠEVCI - 1914
155)ŠPANOVICA - 1912
156)ŠTEFANJE - ?
157) TENJA a)TENJE - 1912 , b)TENJA - 1912
158)TOUNJ - 1910
159)TRENKOVO: a)POŽEŠKA MITROVICA – 1907, b)TRENKOVO - 1914
160)TRIBALJ - 1910
161)TROJEGLAVA ŽUP. / POŽEGA VM. - 1910
162)TRSAT - 1909
163)TUŠILOVIĆ - 1904
164)UDBINJA-SJENIČAK - 1909
165)UTINJA - 1910
166)VELIKA BRŠLJANICA: a)BRŠLJANICA -1911, b)VELIKA BRŠLJANICA - 1914
167)VELIKA PISANICA - a)1906 i b)1909
168)VELIKI PAŠIJAN -1915
169)VELJUN - a)1908 i b)1914
170)VILIĆ SELO – 1913
171)VILJEVO – 1912
172)VINKOVAČKO NOVO SELO a)NEUDORF-1913, b)NOVO SELO- 1914
173)VLAHOVIĆ PU.- KLDV - 1913
174)VOĐINCI: VODJINCI - 1914
175)VOJAKOVAC – 1908
176)VOJNIĆ PU.KLDV. - 1916
177)VOJKA - 1904
178) VRBICA - 1912 !!! NEW FOUND !!! Not in Cividini book!
179)VREBAC a)1908 - b)1911
180)VUKMANIĆ – 1916
181) a)VUKOSAVLJEVICA P.U-KLDV 1914, b)VUKOSAVLJEVICA -1918
182)VUKOVINA - ?
183)VUKOVJE : a)VELIKO VUKOVJE-1910 , b)VUKOVJE-1912
184)DRIVENIK a)ZAGRAD-1911 b)DRIVENIČKI ZAGRAD-1914
185)ZDENCI -1909
186)ZORKOVAC PU. - KLDV -1915
187)ZRIN – 1915
188)(ZRINSKA)ZRINJSKA – 1912
189)ZRINSKI TOPOLOVAC
a)TOPOLOVAC ŽUP / BJELOVAR – K VM -1912
b)ZRINSKI TOPOLOVAC - 1914
190)ŽDALA -1911
191)ŽIROVAC – 1915
MEĐIMURJE:
1)CIRKOVLJAN: DRAVAEGYHAZ - 1914
2)DRAŠKOVEC: a)DRASKOVECZ-1902 , b)LIGETVAR-1909
3)OREHOVICA: a)OREHOVICZA – 1907, b)DRAVADIOS - 1909
4)STRAHOMINEC: DRAVA NAGY FALU – 1910
5)SVETI JURAJ U TRNJU : TUSKESZENTGYORGY - 1909
6)VRAŠTINEC : MURA SIKLOS - 1912
BARANJA:
1)KOTLINA : SEPSE – 1902
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2)LUG : LASKO - 1909
3)PETLOVAC: a)SZENTISTVAN BARANYA–1902, b)BARANYA SZENT ISTVAN - 1904