Everything about Carinthia Province totally explained
Carinthia (
Slovene Koroška,
German Kärnten) is an informal province in the north of
Slovenia. It contains the towns of
Dravograd,
Ravne na Koroškem,
Črna,
Mežica and
Prevalje.The area is often referred to as
Slovene Carinthia in English to distinguish it from the neighbouring
Austrian
federal state of Carinthia.
History
Carinthia was settled by
Slavic tribes around the
6th century. They formed a new people, called
Carantanians, and Carinthia became the central part of the duchy of
Carantania, the first state of Old Slovenians and also the first stable Slavic state ever. Carantania lost autonomy in the early
9th century when it fell under
Frankish power and formed the
March of Carinthia. The
Duchy of Carinthia was later controlled by the
Habsburgs (
1335 -
1918), under the
Holy Roman Empire until
1806 and later
Austria-Hungary. It was populated by Germans and Slovenes. After
World War I military forces of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed
Yugoslavia) occupied southern Carinthia. Those parts which are today Slovenian territory were annexed without referendum. However, in the region north of this, the voters in the
Carinthian Plebiscite on
October 10,
1920 determined that those parts should remain with the newly founded Republic of Austria. With the break-up of Yugoslavia in
1991 the Yugoslav section of Carinthia became a part of independent Slovenia.
After
World War II, the borders of what today is regarded as Slovenian Carinthia have expanded considerably eastward compared to the original province. Today, the municipalities of
Slovenj Gradec,
Radlje ob Dravi,
Mislinja,
Vuzenica,
Podvelka and
Ribnica na Pohorju are generally regarded as part of Slovene Carinthia, although they were historically part of
Lower Styria. In addition, the area of Carinthia around
Jezersko that was awarded to Yugoslavia was subsequently incorporated into the informal province of
Upper Carniola.
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