Reintegration Of Medimurje with Croatia

A postal stationary from Croatia 🇭🇷 

A prepaid postcard was issued in January 2019 commomerating the 100th anniversary of the reintegration Of Medimurje with The Kimgdom Of SHS. 

Međimurje County is a triangle-shaped county in the northernmost part of Croatia, roughly corresponding to the historical and geographical region of Međimurje. Despite being the smallest Croatian county by size, it is the most densely populated one (not including the City of Zagreb). The county seat is Čakovec, which is also the largest city of the county.

On 9 January 1919, an assembly of local deputies decided to secede Međimurje from Hungary and the decision was made in the presence of 10,000 people who gathered in the Franciscan Square in Čakovec on that occasion.

The region joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( kingdom of SHS ) which was later called Yugoslavia. Upon the adoption of the resolution on secession, the Croatian language was introduced in schools and the public life in the area mainly populated by Croats.

Kingdom of SHS 

The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was a political entity that was constituted in October 1918, at the end of World War I, by Slovenes, Croats and Serbs resident in what were the southernmost parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although internationally unrecognized, this was the first incarnation of a Yugoslav state founded on the Pan-Slavic ideology. Thirty-three days after it was proclaimed, the State joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The postcard has been posted at Cakovec! The preprinted stamp shows the map of Medimurje county during 1919 when it seceded to kingdom of SHS .. and the stamps of Hungary post overprinted with SHS can be seen printed on the left side of the postcard. The postcard has been uprated for international postage with another Croatian stamp - commomerating the 100 th anniversary of the first stamp of Croatia. 

Thanks Tom for this special postcard - and for finding a postcard that tells a World War One history from Croatia !