Carniola
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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
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 Henry Baerlein
Madonna was also accompanied by the bishops of Carniola, Venosa, and Orte.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
He strongly advocated the union of Croatia with Carinthia, Carniola and Styria, but found his policy thwarted as much by the apathy of the Slovenes as by the hostility of the Magyars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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