Carinthia (province)

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Carinthia (Slovene Koroška) is both a historical and a statistical region in the north of Slovenia.[1] It is occasionally referred to as Slovene Carinthia in English in order to distinguish it from the neighbouring Austrian State of Carinthia.

Historical regions of Slovenia, with Carinthian parts in yellow.

The name derives from the fact that the territory formed part of the Duchy of Carinthia, which belonged to the Habsburg Empire until World War I. In 1919, the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia) occupied southern Carinthia. Those parts which are today Slovenian territory were annexed without a referendum. However, in the region north and west of this, on October 10, 1920 the voters in the Carinthian Plebiscite determined that those parts should remain with the newly founded Republic of Austria. After World War II, the region formed part of the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia and remained part of independent Slovenia after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.

Statistical regions of Slovenia, with Koroška in pink.

The historical region consists of two geographical separate parts:

The modern statistical region of Koroška has different borders and covers an area about twice as large because it includes the municipalities of Slovenj Gradec, Radlje ob Dravi, Mislinja, Muta, Vuzenica, Podvelka and Ribnica na Pohorju, which were historically part of Styria, whereas the historically Carinthian area around Jezersko has been incorporated into the statistical region of Upper Carniola.

Notes and references

  1. ^ NUTS level 3: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques, level 3: 150,000 - 800,000 inhabitants. European Union, EUSTAT (=Office of Statistics)

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