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

• 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

Hepatic cinnabar is an impure variety from Idria in Carniola, in which the cinnabar is mixed with bituminous and earthy matter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" 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

The local diet, of which the bishop of Laibach is a member ex officio, is composed of thirty-seven members, and Carniola sends eleven deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various