Carinthia (province)
| Carinthia (Slovenia) | |
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Typical Lower Carinthian landscape in Ravne na Koroškem.
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 1791/92 map of Lower Carinthia |
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| Country | Slovenia |
| Elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
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2b Inner, 2c Lower |
Carinthia (Slovene: Koroška, 
pronunciation ), also Slovene Carinthia or Slovenian Carinthia (Slovenska Koroška), is a traditional region in northern Slovenia. The term refers to the small southeasternmost area of the former Duchy of Carinthia, which after World War I was allocated to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes according to the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain. It has no distinct centre, but a local centre in each of the three central river valleys among the heavily forested mountains.
Since the entry of Slovenia into the European Union in May 2004, much effort has been made to re-integrate Carinthia as a cultural, tourist and economic unit. The historic region has no official status as an administrative district within Slovenia, although the association with an informal province (pokrajina) is quite common.
The region lies in the Karawanks mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps and comprises two spatially divided areas:
All these municipalities border on the Austrian state of Carinthia in the north.
In 2005, the Carinthia Statistical Region was established, which covers a larger area of about 1,041 km2 (402 sq mi), parts of which encompass a number of adjacent municipalities belonging to the traditional region of Styria like the town of Slovenj Gradec in the Mislinja Valley or Muta and Radlje down the Drava River, though not Jezersko, which is part of the Upper Carniola Statistical Region.
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