Category
page 1Carantania

Carloman of Bavaria
King of Bavaria from 876 to 879
Carantania
Carantania, also known as Carentania (, , in Old Slavic ''''), was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia. Since the middle of the 8th century, it was allied with Bavaria against the Avars, and consequently became a vassal state of the Frankish Empire. In the same time, Christianisation of Carantanian Slavs was initiated, mainly through missionary activities of the Archdiocese of Salzburg. By 828, internal autonomy of the principality was abolished, and the entire Carantanian territor
Avar March
former country
Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum
literary work

Carantanians
thumb|Carantanian Prince sitting on the Prince's Stone
Carantanians (, ) were a Slavic people of the Early Middle Ages (Latin: , or "Slavs called Carantanians"), living in the principality of Carantania, later known as Carinthia, which covered present-day southern Austria and parts of Slovenia. They are considered ancestors of modern Slovenes, particularly Carinthian Slovenes.

Zollfeld
thumb|320px|View from Karnburg to Maria Saal
Modestus
missionary, evangelizer of the Alpine Slavs