Introduction 1882 - I 1887 1891 - II 1895 - III 1898 1899 1900 1901 - IV 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 - V 1908 1910 1911 1912 - VI 1913 1914 1915 1916 1918 1919 1920 - Local Events 1920 - VII 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 - VIII 1927 1928

SOKOL POSTCARDS and Poster Stamps 1925 (Click on any image to view an enlarged version) ---------- Local Slet celebration by Sokol club at Podbělohorská, a district of Prague   Artist: B. Klimese-Koziny --------- Regional festival in Znojmo This card has the same design as one they used in 1919!   (Images courtesy of Burda Auction House) --------- Veliki Bečkerek (Zrenjanin), Serbia The story here is the many names of the site of this local slet: The former Serbian name of the city was Bečkerek (Бечкерек) or Veliki Bečkerek (Велики Бечкерек). In 1935 the city was renamed to Petrovgrad (Петровград) in honor of king Peter I of Serbia. It was called Petrovgrad from 1935 to 1946. Today, in Hungarian, the city is known as Nagybecskerek, in German as Großbetschkerek or Betschkerek, in Romanian as Becicherecul Mare or Zrenianin, in Slovak as Zreňanin, in Russian as Зрењанин, in Croatian as Zrenjanin, and in Turkish as Beşkelek (meaning five melons) or Beçkerek. In its official language, Serbian, it is Zrenjanin. WHEW! Bulgaria - Yunak Membership Stamps "Yunak" was the Bulgarian version of Sokol. See my YUNAK page for the full story.   I have seen these described as "revenue stamps," but the only way I have seen them used is to validate Yunak membership cards, so I think they are not really "revenue" stamps, since Yunak was a private organization. I am putting them on this page because the only dated use of them I have seen is the one below, on a membership card dated 1925/1926. They may have been issued earlier. As dues increased, they applied overprints:   Yunak was outlawed in 1946 under the Communists, and was never revived.

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