Croatian Overprints From 1990's, Need Help Identifying

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I've looked everywhere in my Scott, but come up empty.

This page was included in a Croatian collection I bought a while back, but no notes or identifiers. I've tried Google, and my stamp identifying phone app and nothing.

Anyone with any clues?

Stamps in the top 3 rows appear to commemorate various weather storms.

Hello spain_1850

Operation Oluja was a major offensive in the Croatian War during the Yugoslav Wars, in which Croatian army and police units recaptured the main part of the territories occupied by the Krajina Serbs in 1991 within 85 hours in August 1995.
Date: 4 Aug. 1995 - 7 Aug. 1995
Location: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Consequences: Reintegration of the area into the territory of Croatia and end of the Croatian War.
Source: Wikipedia.
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Operation Maestral was a major joint military offensive by the Croatian and Bosnian armies during the Bosnian War.
The operation followed Operation Oluja and lasted from 8 to 17 September 1995.
Date: 8 Sept. 1995 - 15 Sept. 1995
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Source: Wikipedia.
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Operation Bljesak was a military operation of the Croatian army and police during the Croatian War, in which these forces recaptured about 558 km² of the Croatian region of Western Slavonia from the army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in a counter-offensive lasting only about 31 hours on 1 and 2 May 1995.
Date: 1 May 1995 - 3 May 1995
Location: Croatia, Slavonia
Source: Wikipedia.
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The United Nations Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (abbreviation UNTAES) was a transitional administration set up by the United Nations after the Croatian War, whose task was the peaceful reintegration of the region into Croatia, the supervision of demilitarisation and the return of refugees, and the holding of elections in the regions that were to become Croatian.
Source: Wikipedia.
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Private issues

Best regards from Switzerland
André

Zeurich4 - Thank you for the wonderful information. I guess I was looking in the wrong way. I assumed they were legitimate overprints, being an area I am totally unfamiliar with.

If these are considered private issues, then I will assume they are not catalogued any where?

Are there any sources that state which ones were overprinted, or if these are considered complete sets? I will be making pages for them, but would really love to find out how many spaces to include.

As far as I know, they were only produced to fill someone's wallet. They exist from all regions of the former Yugoslavia, scattered all over the Balkans. Not only the Croatian 'side', but also the Bosnian and Serbian sides. Since strong nationalism is common in this region before and after the 'Yugoslav wars' and unfortunately still is, the manufacturer probably wanted to 'please' all sides equally and take the money out of everyone's pocket as much as possible, regardless of which side they are/were on. And of course from all those who were not so familiar with the events on the ground and thought that these were overprints of national liberation armies...

Best regards from Switzerland
André

I guess I assumed they were the other type of "storm" or "wind"

I once was on a flight to Dubrovnik that was diverted to Split due to strong winds. From there, we were brought to Dubrovnik on busses. The ride took over 4 hours and passed through Bosnia and Hercegovina, driving in the middle of the road. But Croatia is too far from the Atlantic Ocean to experience named storms.