Carniola

American  

[kahr-nee-oh-luh, kahrn-yoh-] / ˌkɑr niˈoʊ lə, kɑrnˈyoʊ- /

noun

1. a former duchy and crown land of Austria: now part of Slovenia.

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Carniola British  

/ ˌkɑːnɪˈəʊlə /

noun

1. German name: Krain.  Slovene name: Kranj.  a region of N Slovenia: a former duchy and crownland of Austria (1335–1919); divided between Yugoslavia and Italy in 1919; part of Yugoslavia (1947–92)

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Carniolan
  adjective

Example Sentences

In Jugoslavia, especially in his little native province of Carniola, Adamic was almost a national hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grandsons purports to be the story, as told to Adamic himself, of three third-generation U. S.-Slovenes from Carniola.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to nationality, 71.54% were Germans, and 28.39% Slovenes, mostly settled in the districts adjoining the Slovene province of Carniola.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

Those among the Slovenes who were capable of serving in such positions were dispatched to Carniola, Dalmatia or preferably to the German-speaking lands of the Empire.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

Luzon, or Manila, which is about the same size as Galicia, Moravia, and Silesia taken together, and Mindan�o, which, in superficial area, is about equal to Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von