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Carinthia

Carinthia

English

Proper noun

Carinthia

(geography) A federal state of modern Austria.
(geography) A region of modern Slovenia.
(geography, historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
- 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, volume XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:
  Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

Related terms

Carinthian

Synonyms

(region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia

Coordinate terms

(states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

Translations

state of Austria

Bavarian: Karntn
Czech: Korutany (cs) pl, Korutansko (cs) n
Danish: Kärnten
Finnish: Kärnten
French: Carinthie (fr) f
German: Kärnten (de) n

Hungarian: Karintia (hu)
Italian: Carinzia f
Polish: Karyntia f
Portuguese: Caríntia f
Slovene: Koróška (sl) f

region in Slovenia

Bavarian: Karntn
Finnish: Carinthia

Slovene: Koróška (sl) f, Slovénska Koróška f

Portuguese

Proper noun

Carinthia f

Obsolete spelling of Caríntia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).