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The Kingdom
of Yugoslavia
was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was its colloquial name due to its origins. The official name of the state was changed to "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" by King Alexander I on 3 October 1929.
The preliminary kingdom was formed in 1918 by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and Banat, Bačka and Baranja with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. In the same year, the Kingdom of Montenegro also proclaimed its unification with Serbia, whereas the regions of Kosovo and Vardar Macedonia had become parts of Serbia prior to the unification.
The state was ruled by the Serbian dynasty of Karađorđević, which previously ruled the Kingdom of Serbia under Peter I from 1903 onward.
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The State of S. C. S. was highly decentralized. After proclaiming independence, postal directorates ordered overprinting of existing stocks of stamps in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Printing of new stamps to be used on the whole territory of the State (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vojvodina) was ordered by Postal Directorate in Ljubljana (Slovenia), hence the naming of the Slovenian editions.
Stamps of the Slovenian edition were officially in use at 1921, a general issue for the whole Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (latter Yugoslavia) came into use.