Definition of "Carinthia"

Carinthia

/kəˈɹɪnθiə/

proper noun
1. A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
2. A region in modern Slovenia.
3. (historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
  Quotations
  Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...
  1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2