Carantania
Sign in to saveCarantania, 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
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Carantania
- Country.common_name
- Carantania
- Country.native_name
- Korǫtanъ
- Country.p1
- Samo's Empire
- Country.year_start
- 658
- Country.year_end
- 828
- Country.s1
- Francia
- Country.image_map
- Carantania 800 AD-en.PNG
- Country.capital
- Karnburg
- Country.common_languages
- Proto-Slavic
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.era
- Early Middle Ages
- Country.event_start
- Death of King Samo
- Country.event1
- Tributary to Franks
- Country.date_event1
- 745
- Country.event_end
- Integration to Franks
- Country.today
- AustriaSlovenia
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11 sectionsContents
- Origin of the name
- Territory
- History
- The Ducal Inauguration
- Mentions in late medieval literature
- Ethnic and social structure
- Language
- See also
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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 territory was gradually integrated into the East Frankish administrative system, based on counties and marches. Carantania thus became the predecessor of the March of Carinthia, created within the Carolingian Empire by 889.
==Origin of the name== The name Carantania is of proto-Slavic origin. Paul the Deacon mentions Slavs in "Carnuntum, which is erroneously called Carantanum" (Carnuntum, quod corrupte vocitant Carantanum).