Carinthia (state) - Name

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The name is thought to be Celtic in origin, though two roots have been proposed:

  1. carant, meaning "friend" or "relation" - giving the meaning "land of friends", which may refer to an Illyrian tribe of the Bronze Age.
  2. karanto (pre-Indo-European root), meaning "stone, rock". If this is the case, the name shares its root with such others as Karnburg, the Karawanken and similar.

Carantania is also related to the Old Slavic Korotan, from which the modern name Koroška arose, and it derives from pre-Slavic "carantia".

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