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Pošta Srbije (Serbian Cyrillic: Пошта Србије, lit. 'Post of Serbia') is the national postal service of Serbia, with the headquarters in Belgrade. Public postal service was first introduced in Serbia in 1840. The first stamp was printed in 1866. In 1874 it founded the Universal Postal Union together with 21 other countries.
Derocco, E. Istorija poštanskih maraka Srbije = History of the postage stamps of Serbia. 1973, 98p. Fleck, Vladimir. Die Briefmarken von Serbien. Frankfurt am Main: [Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neues Handbuch der Briefmarkenkunde], 1965, 31p. Kardosch, Velizar M. The Principality of Serbia: postal history and postage stamps, 1830–1882.
The Main Post Office, whose history of service dates back to the 1840s, was the national postal institution not only in Serbia but in the whole of the Кingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Кingdom of Yugoslavia. On the other hand, the Post Office Savings Bank began operations in 1923 at the Hotel Мoskvа at Теrazije Street. [1]
Serbian postal codes consist of five digits. The first two digits roughly correspond to the corresponding district; district seat cities usually have 000 as the last three digits, while smaller towns and villages have non-round last three digits. A six-digit postcode format has been in place since 1 January 2005. [1]
On 4 February 2003, a loose state union or confederacy, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, was created. On 3 April 2003, two stamps were issued with the new name of the state "Srbija i Crna Gora". Since Montenegro had adopted the euro in 2002, stamps of the confederation were denominated in both the Serbian dinar and the euro.
Poštanska štedionica (meaning "Post's savings service") was founded on 26 June 1921 in Palilula, Belgrade when the law of postal savings service was implemented. By 1926 it had become the main financial savings institution in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, with branches in all postal offices in the entire county. By then, it practiced a policy of ...
The Old Post Office, is a former building in Belgrade, modern-day Serbia. Located next to Belgrade Main railway station , it was considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings and symbols of the city.
Serbian intellectuals dreamed of a South Slavic state—which in the 1920s became Yugoslavia. Serbia was landlocked and strongly felt the need for access to the Mediterranean, preferably through the Adriatic Sea. Austria worked hard to block Serbian access to the sea, for example by helping with the creation of Albania in 1912.