English

Proper noun

Carniola

1. (geography, historical) A historical region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires that comprised parts of what is now Slovenia.
   • 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...

Derived terms

• Inner Carniola
• Lower Carniola
• Upper Carniola

Related terms

• Carniolan