Carniola (Slovenia)
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- Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online, Oct. 13, 2006(Kranjska, region, Slovenia; Lat. Carniola; historic region, NW and central Slovenia. The 1st known inhabitants, a Celtic tribe called the Carni, were displaced by the Romans, who made Carniola part of their prov. of Pannonia. Later inc. into Charlemagne's empire. Under Austrian Hapsburg rule (1282-1918); made (1364) a titular duchy and, eventually, a crown land (1849). Ljubljana was its chief city. Divided after World War I bet. Italy and Yugoslavia, but the Ital. part passed to the former Yugoslavia in 1947)
- Die Ehre des Herzogthums Krain, 1877-1879(reprint of 1689 ed.; uses older spelling Crain throughout)
- Encyclopedia Britannica WWW site, Oct. 13, 2006(Carniola, German Krain, Slovenian Kranjska; western region of Slovenia; belonged to a series of ecclesiastical and lay princely houses until 1335 when it became a possession of the Austrian Habsburgs, who held it with only brief interruption until 1918; in 1918 most of Carniola was attached to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, later called Yugoslavia; after 1947 Carniola was located entirely within Slovenia)
- Wikipedia WWW site, Oct. 13, 2006(Carniola (Slovenian: Kranjska; German: Krain), traditional and historical region of Slovenia. As part of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land officially known as the Duchy of Carniola (Vojvodstvo Kranjsko/Herzogtum Krain) until 1918; subdivided into Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola (with White Carniola), and Inner Carniola)
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The Duchy of Carniola (Slovene: Vojvodina Kranjska, German: Herzogtum Krain, Hungarian: Krajna) was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, established under Habsburg rule on the territory of the former East Frankish March of Carniola in 1364. A hereditary land of the Habsburg monarchy, it became a constituent land of the Austrian Empire in 1804 and part of the Kingdom of Illyria until 1849. A separate crown land from 1849, it was incorporated into the Cisleithanian territories of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until the state's dissolution in 1918. Its capital was Laibach, today Ljubljana.
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