Use Of Hungarian Stamps In Bosnia?

I believe that until 1918 Bosnia-Herzegovina was under shared administration by Austria and Hungary. Can anyone tell me whether Hungarian stamps could be used (i.e., cancelled) there?

Have a look at this (took a while to load for me). Didn't see any evidence of non-local stamps

https://www.collectorsclubchicago.o...snia_opt.pdf

Thanks Geoffrey. That's a valuable site, one I hadn't yet come upon. And indeed it shows no use of any but local issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Here now is the stamp that has prompted my query.


It's from the issue of 1913 (MiNr 117X). The place of cancel consists of two words. The first is apparently long, but only the final letter A is visible. The second word seems to be "VRELO." The L is unclear, but I haven't found another letter that would produce a better result. Nor have I been able to find any place in the Hungarian crown lands that included that name. There are, however, several places in Bosnia-Herzegovina that do. (There the word means a fresh water spring or other such source.)

The Austro-Hungarian empire had annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908, but the two component nations couldn't agree which of them should have administrative control. Instead they established a "Condominium," or shared governance, for the territory. Hence my question: during that period were Hungarian stamps valid for postage in Bosnia-Herzegovina? If not, can anyone say where in the Hungarian crown lands this stamp was cancelled?

The word is a Serbo-Croat word that means spring. There is a river with that name in Serbia.

The Vojvodina is an autonomous part of Serbia wich was ruled by Hungary. You might want to look for a place in that part of the world that includes Vrelo in its name.

Wikipedia has nice lists of Hungarian exonyms for all the cities and towns in the Hungarian crown lands: Croatia, Slovakia, Mures County (Transylvania, Romania), the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, and the Vojvodina region of Serbia. I've not been able to find a name with Vrelo in any of them.

There, always, is a possibility that Vrelo is the office and that the town ends in "A." It could be an office near a tourist destination or spa.

There are a couple of towns ending in Vrelo in Croatia.
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrelo...t%C5%91_lap)

Very nice! Not knowing the language, I never tried Hungarian Wikipedia. Via English and German I'd been able to find the name Vrelo only in Bosnia. Croatia is of course more likely, and the three names that you found are all small villages on or near the Bosnian border. Not far away in Bosnia there is Bosanska Krupa, which does have the terminal A. It's adjacent to Vrelo Krušnice. But again I have no Hungarian or Austrian name for the place.

Looking further in Hungarian Wikipedia I was able to find that Vrelo Korenicko, one of the towns that NSK suggested, is Korenica Vrelo in Hungarian. That's a very plausible solution. Thank you, NSK!