page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia
section_title: Yugoslavia
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia / Yugoslavia
caption_attribution_description: English: Postage stamp of Yugoslavia, king Alexander I Karageorge, 1.50 dinara, 1931. Русский: Почтовая марка Югославии, король Александр I Карагеоргиевич, 1,50 динара, 1931.
context_page_description: The story of the postage stamps and postal history of Yugoslavia officially begins with the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 December 1918.
context_section_description: The name of the state was changed to "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" on 3 October 1929. In 1931, a new series was the first to be inscribed "JUGOSLAVIA". The old series of 1926 was also overprinted with the new name, in 1933. Just a week after Alexander's assassination in 1934, the 1931 issues were re-issued with black borders, and in 1935, the first anniversary of his death was marked by an issue of five stamps. In the meantime, new definitives depicted the young King Peter II.
  In 1936, Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, honored on his 80th birthday, became the first non-royal on a Yugoslavian stamp.
  A new definitive series of 1939 showed an older Peter II; it would be the last series issued by the kingdom.
caption: The 1931 series of Yugoslavia
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