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56-522: The speech area historically included the former linguistic enclaves in Carniola (present-day Slovenia ) around Kočevje in the Gottschee region ( Gottscheerish ), Sorica (Zarz) and Nemški Rovt (Deutsch Ruth) . The Cimbrian language still spoken in several language-islands in north-eastern Italy ( Friuli , Veneto and Trentino ) mostly counts as a separate Bavarian language variant. Southern Bavarian

112-606: A Landeshauptmann , being president of the Landtag as well. From 1868 onwards Emperor Franz Joseph himself (in his function as monarch of a crown land, being king, archduke, grandduke, duke or count) and his Imperial–Royal ( k.k. ) government headed by the Minister-President of Austria were represented at the capital cities of the crown lands—except for Vorarlberg which was administered with Tyrol, and Istria and Gorizia-Gradisca which were administered together with Trieste under

168-563: A constructive role most of the time. Politics were frequently paralysed because of the tensions between different nationalities. When Czech obstruction at the Reichsrat prevented the parliament from working, the emperor went on to rule autocratically through imperial decrees ( Kaiserliche Verordnungen ) submitted by his government. The Reichsrat was prorogued in March 1914 at the behest of Minister-President Count Karl von Stürgkh , it did not meet during

224-462: A majority of the population. Almost 60% of Cisleithania's population was ethnically Slavic. Religion groups in Cisleithania included Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelicals, Muslims and Jews. Roman Catholics were the largest religious group in the country that accounted for 79% of the population. While on the other hand, Greek Catholics accounted for 12% of the population. In

280-533: A portion of Lower Styria and Carinthia; the remaining portion of Carniola was attached to Aquileia, later on to Gorizia and Trieste . At the redistribution of dioceses (1787 to 1791) not all the parishes in Carniola were included in the Diocese of Ljubljana, but this was accomplished in 1833, by taking two deaneries from the Diocese of Trieste, one from Gorizia, and one parish from the Diocese of Lavant, so as to include all

336-635: A separate part. Both the "Austrian" and "Hungarian" lands of the Dual Monarchy had large Slavic -settled territories in the north ( Czechs , Slovaks , Poles and Ruthenians ) as well as in the south ( Slovenes , Croats and Serbs ). Cisleithania consisted of 15 crown lands which had representatives in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ), the Cisleithanian parliament in Vienna. The crown lands centered on

392-414: A single chamber of thirty-seven members, among whom the prince-bishop sits ex-officio. The emperor convened the legislature, and it is presided over by the governor. The landed interests elected ten members, the cities and towns eight, the commercial and industrial boards two, the village communes sixteen. In 1907, instead of these rules, universal and equal suffrage for all men was introduced. The business of

448-756: A small part in Italy , around Fusine in Valromana . Carniola in its final form, established in 1815, encompassed 9,904 km (3,824 sq mi). In 1914, before the beginning of World War I, it had a population of slightly under 530,000, of whom 95% were Slovenes. The region is crossed by the Julian Alps and the Karawanks . The highest mountain peaks are Nanos , 4,200 feet (1,300 m); Vremščica , 3,360 feet (1,020 m); Snežnik , 5,900 feet (1,800 m); and Triglav , 9,300 feet (2,800 m). The main rivers are

504-403: Is a historical region that comprised parts of present-day Slovenia . Although as a whole it does not exist anymore, Slovenes living within the former borders of the region still tend to identify with its traditional parts Upper Carniola , Lower Carniola (with the sub-part of White Carniola ), and to a lesser degree with Inner Carniola . In 1991, 47% of the population of Slovenia lived within

560-872: Is also spoken in the Werdenfelser Land region around Mittenwald and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in German Upper Bavaria . The Tyrolean Unterland , the Alpine regions of Salzburg ( Pinzgau , Pongau and Lungau ), as well as the adjacent parts of Styria and southern Burgenland form the dialect continuum with the Central Bavarian language area in the north. Southern Bavarian has 8 vowels : Southern Bavarian has about 33 consonants : Carniola Carniola ( Slovene : Kranjska [ˈkɾàːnska] ; German : Krain [kʁaɪn] ; Italian : Carniola ; Hungarian : Krajna )

616-574: The Archduchy of Austria ( Erzherzogtum Österreich ) were not states, but provinces in the modern sense. However, they were areas with unique historic political and legal characteristics and were therefore more than mere administrative districts. They have been conceived of as "historical-political entities". Each crown land had a regional assembly, the Landtag , which enacted laws ( Landesgesetze ) on matters of regional and mostly minor importance. Until 1848,

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672-597: The Austrian Empire , but the latter term was rarely used to avoid confusion with the era before 1867, when the Kingdom of Hungary had been a constituent part of that empire. The somewhat cumbersome official name was Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder ("The Kingdoms and Lands represented in the Imperial Council "). The phrase was used by politicians and bureaucrats, but it had no official status until 1915;

728-691: The Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Foreign Ministry , these k.u.k. matters remained reserved for the Imperial and Royal Ministers' Council for Common Affairs of Austria-Hungary. The Austrian Reichsrat , a bicameral legislature implemented in 1861, became the Cisleithanian parliament. Originally consisting of delegates of the Landtage , in 1873 direct election of the House of Deputies ( Abgeordnetenhaus )

784-583: The Avar rule, but most probably enjoyed partial autonomy. Carniola was governed by the Franks about the year 788, and was Christianized by missionaries from the Patriarchate of Aquileia and others. When Charlemagne established the margraviate of Friuli , he added to it a part of Carniola. After the division of Friuli , it became an independent margraviate , having its own Slavic margrave residing at Kranj , subject to

840-510: The July Crisis and was not reconvened until May 1917, after the accession of Emperor Karl in 1916. For representation in matters relevant to the whole real union of Austria-Hungary (foreign affairs, defence, and the financing thereof) the Reichsrat appointed delegations of 60 members to discuss these matters parallel to Hungarian delegations of the same size and to come, in separate votes, to

896-496: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ). The western part of the duchy, with the towns of Postojna , Ilirska Bistrica , Idrija , and Šturje , was annexed to Italy in 1920, but was subsequently also included in Yugoslavia in 1947. Since 1991, the region has been part of an independent Slovenia . Cisleithania Cisleithania , officially The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in

952-491: The Landtage had been traditional diets (assemblies of the estates of the realm ). They were disbanded after the Revolutions of 1848 and reformed after 1860. Some members held their position as ex officio members (e.g., bishops), while others were elected. There was no universal and equal suffrage, but a mixture of privilege and limited franchise. The executive committee of a Landtag was called Landesausschuss and headed by

1008-730: The Leitha River , a tributary of the Danube forming the historical boundary between the Archduchy of Austria and the Hungarian Kingdom in the area southeast of Vienna (on the way to Budapest ). Much of its territory lay west (or, from a Viennese perspective, on "this" side) of the Leitha. After the constitutional changes of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the Cisleithanian crown lands ( Kronländer ) continued to constitute

1064-524: The Ottomans and rebellions by local residents against Habsburg rule from the 15th to the 17th centuries. From about 900 AD until the 20th century, Carniola's ruling classes and urban areas spoke German , while the peasantry spoke Slovene . The capital of Carniola, originally located at Kranj ( German : Krainburg ), was briefly moved to Kamnik ( German : Stein ) and finally to the current capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana ( German : Laibach ). Before

1120-688: The Sava , Tržič Bistrica , Kokra , Kamnik Bistrica , Sora , Ljubljanica , Mirna , Krka , and Kolpa rivers. Notable lakes include Black Lake ( Slovene : Črno jezero ), Lake Bohinj , Lake Bled , and Lake Cerknica . Nearby is the Ljubljana Marsh , and a series of hot and mineral springs which can be found at Dolenjske Toplice , Šmarješke Toplice , and Izlake . Agriculture thrived more in Upper Carniola than in Lower Carniola. The Vipava Valley

1176-623: The 14th century the Duchy of Carniola was declared, a status which was formally recognised in the 16th century. As a hereditary possession of the Habsburgs (one of the so-called Erblande ), Carniola was part of the Austrian Circle of the Empire from the early 16th century. Informally it was part of Inner Austria . It was subdivided into Upper , Lower , and Inner Carniola . In 1804 it became part of

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1232-583: The Austrian half, Orthodox church had 770,000 believers mostly concentrated in Dalmatia and Bukovina which represented 2.3% of the population. The Evengelical churches had 600,000 believers that represented 2% of the population in Cisleithania. Muslims, predominantly Sunni, became the citizens of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the occupation in 1878 and later annexation in 1908. At the time they were called

1288-576: The Austrian part of Austria-Hungary . It remained so until 1918, when it seceded as part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs , becoming part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia); it ceased to exist de jure with the passing of the Vidovdan Constitution in 1921. Nowadays, its territory (in the extent at its dissolution) is almost entirely located in Slovenia, except for

1344-593: The Dukes of Austria asserted their claim as successors to the Bohemian kingdom. When Henry died 1335 Jan, King of Bohemia, renounced his claims, and Albrecht, Duke of Austria, received Carniola; it was proclaimed a duchy by Rudolf IV , in 1364. Emperor Frederick III united Upper, Lower, and Central Carniola as Metlika and Pivka into one duchy. The union of the dismembered parts was completed by 1607. French revolutionary troops occupied Carniola in 1797, and from 1805 to 1806. Under

1400-637: The Imperial Council ( German : Die im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreiche und Länder ), was the northern and western part of Austria-Hungary , the Dual Monarchy created in the Compromise of 1867 —as distinguished from Transleithania (i.e., the Hungarian Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen east of ["beyond"] the Leitha River). This name for the region was a common, but unofficial one. The Cisleithanian capital

1456-614: The Imperial council in Vienna and by the Hungarian parliament in Budapest. Without the Austrian and Hungarian parliamentary ratifications, the decisions of the delegates were not valid in Austria or in Kingdom of Hungary. The largest group within Cisleithania were Austrian Germans (including Yiddish -speaking Jews ), who made up around a third of the population. German-speakers and Czechs made up

1512-691: The Middle Ages the Church held much property in Carniola, and thus in 974 in Upper and Lower Carniola the Bishop of Freising became in 974 a feudal lord of the town of Škofja Loka , the Bishop of Brixen held Bled and possessions in the Bohinj Valley, and the Bishop of Lavant received Mokronog . Among secular potentates, the Dukes of Meran , Gorizia , Babenberg , and Zilli held possessions given to them in fief by

1568-665: The Treaty of Vienna, Carniola became part of the Illyrian provinces of France (1809–1814), with Ljubljana as its capital, and Carniola formed a part of the new territory from 1809 to 1813. The defeat of Napoleon restored Carniola to Austrian Emperor Francis I , with larger boundaries, but at the extinction of the Illyrian Kingdom Carniola was confined to the limits outlined at the Congress of Vienna , 1815. From 1816 to 1849 Carniola

1624-598: The borders of the former Duchy of Carniola . The March of Carniola was a state of the Holy Roman Empire , established as an immediate territory in the 11th century. From the second half of the 13th century it was ruled by the Habsburgs and its capital was Ljubljana (Laibach); previous overlords had their seats in Kranj (Krainburg) and Kamnik (Stein), which are therefore sometimes referred to as its earlier capitals. In

1680-462: The chamber was restricted to legislating on agriculture, public and charitable institutions, administration of communes, church and school affairs, the transportation and housing of soldiers in war and during manoeuvres, and other local matters. The land budget of 1901 amounted to 3,573,280 crowns ($ 714,656). In 1918, the duchy ceased to exist and its territory became part of the newly formed State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and subsequently part of

1736-663: The coming of the Romans ( c.  200 BC ), the Taurisci dwelt in the north of Carniola, the Pannonians in the southeast, the Iapodes or Carni , a Celtic tribe, in the southwest. Carniola formed part of the Roman province of Pannonia ; the northern part was joined to Noricum , the south-western and south-eastern parts and the city of Aemona to Venice and Istria . In the time of Augustus all

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1792-399: The common name of Austro-Illyrian Littoral— by a stadtholder ( Statthalter ), in few crown lands called Landespräsident , who acted as chief executive. According to the "December Constitution", a redraft of the emperor's 1861 February Patent , the Austrian government was generally responsible in all affairs concerning the Cisleithanian lands, except for the common Austro-Hungarian Army ,

1848-741: The context of the Czech National Revival , was played out. Leaders of the movement like František Palacký advocated the emancipation of the Slavic population within the Monarchy ( Austroslavism ), while politicians of the Young Czech Party principally denied the right of the Reichsrat to put any decisions relevant for the " Czech lands ", and used means of filibustering as well as absence to torpedo its work. They were antagonized by radical German nationalists led by Georg von Schönerer , demanding

1904-521: The dissolution of the Monarchy and the unification of the " German Austrian " lands with the German Empire . After 1893, no k.k. government was able to rely on a parliamentary majority. Nevertheless, Polish members of parliament and politicians like Count Kasimir Felix Badeni achieved some success involving Galician Poles by special regulations for this "developing country"; thence the Polenklub played

1960-470: The fact that there was no common parliament. The common diplomatic and military affairs were managed by delegations from the Imperial Council and the Hungarian parliament. According to the compromise, the members of the delegates from the two parliaments had no right to debate, they had no right to introduce new perspectives and own ideas during the meetings, they were nothing more than the extended arms of their own parliaments. All decisions had to be ratified by

2016-735: The former Venetian Dalmatia ( Kingdom of Dalmatia ). From 1867, the Kingdom of Hungary , the Kingdom of Croatia , the Kingdom of Slavonia and the Principality of Transylvania were no longer "Austrian" crown lands. Rather, they constituted an autonomous state, officially called the "Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of St Stephen" ( Hungarian : Szent István Koronájának Országai or A Magyar Szent Korona Országai , German : Länder der Heiligen Ungarischen Stephanskrone ) and commonly known as Transleithania or just Hungary. The Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina , occupied in 1878, formed

2072-453: The government mint at the town of Kostanjevica , and finally (in 1268) willed to Ottokar II , King of Bohemia , all his possessions and the government of Carinthia and Carniola. Ottokar was defeated by Rudolph I of Germany , and at the meeting at Augsburg in 1282, he gave in fief to his sons Albrecht and Rudolf the province of Carniola, but it was leased to Meinhard, count of Gorizia-Tirol . Duke Henry of Carinthia claimed Carniola; and

2128-627: The governor of Bavaria at first, and after 976 to the Dukes of Carinthia . Henry IV gave it to the Patriarch of Aquileia (1071) and it formed part of the Patriarchal State of Friuli . Several sources from the High Middle Ages suggest that there was a common Carantanian (that is, Carinthian) identity that slowly vanished after the 14th century and was replaced by a regional Carniolan identity. In

2184-404: The home parliament to enact all laws not reserved to the imperial diet, at which it was represented by eleven delegates, of whom two elected by the landowners, three by the cities, towns, commercial and industrial boards, five by the village communes, and one by a fifth curia by secret ballot, every duly registered male twenty-four years of age has the right to vote. The home legislature consisted of

2240-453: The law permitted the summoning of a common session of both delegations and the eventual counting of the votes in total, but the Hungarians, who averted any Imperial "roof" over their part of the dual monarchy, as well as the common ministers, carefully avoided reaching this situation. Austria-Hungary as a common entity did not have its own jurisdiction and legislative power, which was shaped by

2296-589: The major part of Carniola on the Patriarchate of Aquileia, and the remainder on the Diocese of Trieste . In 1100 that patriarchate was divided into five archdeaconries, of which Krain was one. The diocese of Ljubljana or Laibach was established by Emperor Frederick III on 6 December 1461. It was directly subject to the pope. This was confirmed by a Bull of Pope Pius II, 10 September 1462. The new diocese consisted of part of Upper Carniola, two parishes in Lower Carniola, and

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2352-445: The newly established Austrian Empire and in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. In 1809 it was ceded to the First French Empire , becoming part of the Illyrian Provinces ; it was returned to Austria in 1815 , forming part of the Kingdom of Illyria . In 1849 Illyria was dissolved and Carniola became a crown land in its own right; the three traditional subdivisions were also abolished. In 1867 it became part of Cisleithania ,

2408-404: The patriarchs of Aquileia. The dukes governed the province for nearly half a century. Finally Carniola was given in fief with the consent of the patriarch to Frederick II of Austria , who obtained the title of duke in 1245. Frederick was succeeded by Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, who married Agnes of Andechs , a relative of the patriarch, and he endowed the churches and monasteries, established

2464-445: The press and the general public seldom used it and then with a derogatory connotation. In general, the lands were just called Austria, but the term "Austrian lands" ( Österreichische Länder ) originally did not apply to the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (i.e., Bohemia proper, the Margraviate of Moravia and Duchy of Silesia ) or to the territories annexed in the 18th-century Partitions of Poland ( Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ) or

2520-461: The region called by Latin writers Carnia , or Carniola meaning 'little Carnia'; i.e., part of greater Carnia. The Latin name was later borrowed into Slavic, becoming Kranjska , and into German as Chrainmark, Krain . The new inhabitants, to whom modern historiography frequently refers to as Alpine Slavs , were subjected to the Avars , but around 623 they joined the Slavic tribal union of Samo . After Samo's death in AD 658, they fell again under

2576-404: The region from Aemona to the Kolpa River (Culpa) belonged to the province of Savia . After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476), Carniola was incorporated into Odoacer 's Kingdom of Italy, and then in 493, under Theodoric, it formed part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom . Between the upper Sava and the Soča rivers lived the Carni, and towards the end of the sixth century Slavs settled

2632-487: The region were Kamnik , Kranj , Tržič , Vrhnika , Vipava , Idrija , Turjak , Ribnica , Metlika , Novo Mesto , and Vače . After the fall of the Roman Empire , Lombards settled in Carniola, followed by Slavs around the sixth century AD. As a part of the Holy Roman Empire , the area was successively ruled by Bavarian , Frankish and local nobility, and eventually by the Austrian Habsburgs almost continuously from 1335 to 1918, though beset by many raids from

2688-411: The same conclusion on the recommendation of the responsible common ministry. In Cisleithania, the 60 delegates consisted of 40 elected members of the House of Representatives ( Abgeordnetenhaus ) and 20 members of the Upper House ( Herrenhaus ). The delegations convened simultaneously, both either in Vienna or in Budapest, though spatially divided. In case of not getting the same decision in three attempts,

2744-487: The south. It comprised the current States of Austria (except for Burgenland ), as well as most of the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovenia (except for Prekmurje ), southern Poland and parts of Italy ( Trieste , Gorizia , Tarvisio , Trentino , and South Tyrol ), Croatia ( Istria , Dalmatia ), Montenegro ( Kotor Bay ), Romania (Southern Bukovina ), and Ukraine (Northern Bukovina and Galicia ). The Latin name Cisleithania derives from that of

2800-484: The territory within the political boundaries of the crownland. The Austrian Empire reorganized the territory in 1849 as a duchy and a Cisleithanian crownland in Austria-Hungary known as the Duchy of Carniola . It was bounded on the north by Carinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the south-east and south by Croatia, and on the west by Trieste, Goritza, and Istria; with area of 3,857 square miles (9,990 km ) and population of 510,000. The capital, Ljubljana ,

2856-401: Was Vienna , the residence of the Austrian emperor . The territory had a population of 28,571,900 in 1910. It reached from Vorarlberg in the west to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and the Duchy of Bukovina (today part of Ukraine and Romania ) in the east, as well as from the Kingdom of Bohemia in the north to the Kingdom of Dalmatia (today part of Croatia and Montenegro ) in

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2912-402: Was especially famous for its wine and vegetables, and for its mild climate. The average temperature was 56 °F (13 °C) in spring, 77 °F (25 °C) in summer, 59 °F (15 °C) in autumn, and 26 °F (−3 °C) in winter. In 1910 the main railroads were the Southern, Prince Rudolf, Bohinj, Kamnik, Lower Carniola, and Vrhnika railroads. The principal cities and towns in

2968-462: Was introduced with a four-class franchise suffrage for male landowners and bourgeois. Equal, direct, secret and universal suffrage—for men—was not introduced until a 1907 electoral reform. In this Lower House (with 353 members in 1873 and 516 in 1907), at first German-speaking deputies dominated, but with the extension of the suffrage the Slavs gained a majority. An ethnic nationalist struggle between German-speaking and Slavic deputies, especially in

3024-409: Was part of the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria with capital in Ljubljana. In early Christian times the duchy was under the jurisdiction of the metropolitans of Aquileia (who became Patriarchs), Syrmium, and Salona. In consequence of the immigration of the pagan Slovenes, this arrangement was not a lasting one. After they had embraced Christianity in the seventh and eighth centuries Charlemagne conferred

3080-405: Was the residence of the imperial governor. The districts were: Kamnik, Kranj, Radovljica, the neighbourhood of Ljubljana, Logatec, Postojna, Litija, Krsko, Novo Mesto, Crnomelj, and Gotschee or Kocevje. There were 31 judicial circuits. The duchy was constituted by rescript of 20 December 1860, and by imperial patent of 26 February 1861, modified by legislation of 21 December 1867, granting power to

3136-408: Was the see of a prince-bishop , population, 40,000; it was known to the Romans as Aemona, and was destroyed by Obri in the sixth century. Carniola was divided into Upper Carniola (Slovenian name: Gorenjska), Lower Carniola (Slovenian: Dolenjska), and Inner Carniola (Slovenian: Notranjska). Politically the province was divided into eleven districts consisting of 359 municipalities; the provincial capital

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