350th Anniv. Of The Deaths Of Petar Zrinski And Fran Krsto Frankopan

Joint issues of postage stamps speak of a common heritage in history, culture and art. Hrvatska pošta d.o.o. Mostar (Croatian Post Ltd. Mostar) and Hrvatska pošta d.d. Zagreb (Croatian post LLc. Zagreb) issued the first joint stamp to mark the 350th anniversary of the deaths of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan. Oton Iveković's painting "Farewell of Zrinski from Katarina", which is in the Croatian History Museum in Zagreb, was used to design the edition.

Croatian nobles, military leaders and poets Ban Fran Krsto Frankopan and Duke Petar Zrinski were executed in Vienna Neustadt on 30 April 1671, after a failed conspiracy by the Croatian and Hungarian nobility, dissatisfied with the policy of the Vienna court. Emperor Leopold I summoned them under the pretext of reconciliation, but he immediately imprisoned them and after the allegation of insulting the king and betraying the country, they were convicted and executed.

The Zrinski family has its origins in the Šubić family, one of the 12 old Croatian medieval tribes, and along with the Frankopan family it belongs to the most important and most famous Croatian noble families. Mladen I. and Mladen II. Šubić Bribirski were Bosnian bans, and Jelena Šubić was the mother of the Bosnian king Tvrtko I. (Željka Šaravanja)