Carinthia

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Carinthia

(geography) A federal state of modern Austria.
(geography) A region of modern Slovenia.
(geography, historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
- 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, volume XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:
  Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

Synonyms

(region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia

Coordinate terms

(states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

Related terms

Carinthian

Translations

state of Austria

Bavarian: Karntn
Czech: Korutany (cs) pl, Korutansko (cs) n
Danish: Kärnten
Finnish: Kärnten
French: Carinthie (fr) f
German: Kärnten (de) n

Hungarian: Karintia (hu)
Italian: Carinzia f
Polish: Karyntia (pl) f
Portuguese: Caríntia f
Slovene: Koróška (sl) f
Spanish: Carintia f

region in Slovenia

Bavarian: Karntn
Finnish: Carinthia

Slovene: Koróška (sl) f, Slovénska Koróška f

Further reading

Carinthia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Proper noun

Carinthia f

Obsolete spelling of Caríntia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

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