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

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

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

Thus the Republican “visitation” of Carinthia and Carniola was one swift march—politically glorious, if dangerous from a purely military standpoint—of Napoleon’s army to the Semmering.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various