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

Both in Germany and in Austria-Hungary the production of lignite is large—in the first-named especially in the districts about Halle and Cologne; in the second in north-western Bohemia, Styria and Carniola.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

He thinks that the Proteus Anguinis is the first stage of an animal prevented from growing to perfection by inhabiting the subterraneous waters of Carniola.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

After ravaging Styria, Carinthia and Carniola and threatening Vienna, Hunyadi’s difficulties elsewhere compelled him to make a truce with Frederick for two years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various