Opava (CZ)

Opava (German: Troppau, Lower Silesian: Tropp, Polish: Opawa, Latin: Oppavia) is a statutory city (57,141 inhabitants end 2017) in the eastern Czech Republic on the river Opava, located to the north-west of Ostrava. Opava was a historical capital of Czech Silesia, and is now in the Moravian-Silesian Region.

Historically in the Austrian Silesia province.

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Postmark in the Czech Republic

File:Opava (CZ) CZ a.jpg

Postmark in Czechoslovakia era

File:Opava (CZ) CZL a.jpg

Postmarks in Austria-Hungary era (1867-1918)

Linear cancels

Unusual in A-H for this period

Antiqua linear TROPPAU (Klein type aLj, 15 points).

Antiqua linear TROPPAU in DEZ 72 (Klein type kaLj, 25 points).

Grotesk linear TROPPAU in FEB 78 (Klein type kgLj, 20 points).

Grotesk linear TROPPAU in JUL 79 (Klein type gLj, 15 points).

Other cancels

Circle in 1892.

Circle TROPPAU-BRIEFPOST in 1896.

Sub-offices

File:Opava (CZ) AH OFF a.jpg TROPPAU 2 opened on 1 July 1896	File:Opava (CZ) AH OFF b.jpg TROPPAU 3 opened on 2 December 1886.	TROPPAU 4, bridge in 1915.
Circle TROPPAU-FAHRPOST.	TROPPAU-FAHRPOST (?) in 1899.

Postmarks in Austrian Empire Silesia Crownland

The post office (named TROPPAU) opened before 1850.

Linear sL-R in 1854ca.

Linear sL-I in 1863.

File:Opava (CZ) AE c.jpg Circle