This is a survey of the
postage stamps and
postal history
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of
North Macedonia.
The Republic of North Macedonia, until February 2019 the Republic of Macedonia, is a country located in the central
Balkan peninsula
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in
Southeastern Europe. It is one of the
successor states to
Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991.
Kingdoms of Serbia and Yugoslavia
As a result of the
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...
of 1912 and 1913 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the territory of present-day North Macedonia became part of the
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija) was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Princi ...
.
In 1915, during World War I, the territory North Macedonia was occupied by Bulgaria. Post offices were organized by the Bulgarian authorities in the occupied territory. After the end of the First World War, the area returned to Serbian control as part of the newly formed
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The first stamps for the kingdom were issued in January 1921.
World War II
During World War II, North Macedonia was occupied by the
Axis powers and divided between
Bulgaria and
Italian-occupied Albania. At the end of the Second World War, North Macedonia became part of the
federal republic
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of Yugoslavia as the
People’s Republic of Macedonia and used its stamps.
Independence
The first stamps of the Republic of Macedonia were issued in 1992.
[ Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. ''The Stamp Atlas''. London: Macdonald, 1986, p.119. ] Since 2019, stamps are inscribed "Republic of North Macedonia".
See also
*
Postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia
References
Further reading
* Cronin A. "Yugoslavia: Macedonia the 1944 Surcharges for the Vardar Region." ''The London Philatelist''. Vol. 104 No. 1222/23 (1995).
* Lamb, Bob. "worldwide in a nutshell: Republic of Macedonia." ''The American Philatelist''. Vol. 124 No. 1 (January 2010), p. 96.
External links
* http://www.stampdomain.com/country/yugoslavia/display.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100726100131/http://sinbad.mp.com.mk/stamps/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100726054308/http://faq.macedonia.org/information/philately.html
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Macedonia
Macedonia most commonly refers to:
* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
History of North Macedonia