Arechis I, duke of Benevento, had conquered…

Alpine Slavs living over the past two centuries in what is today Austria and western Hungary have been absorbed by waves of Bavarian and Magyar invaders, so that the Slovene linguistic boundaries have contracted southward.

Nevertheless, a Slovene tribal duchy, centered in Austria's Klagenfurt basin, has managed to survive for some two hundred years.

Though it is still imperfectly understood, ancient Carantania (or Carinthia) serves as a symbol of nationhood for contemporary Slovenes.

In 976, however, German emperor Otto I incorporates most of the Slovenian lands into the Duchy of Carinthia, which he separates from the Duchy of Bavaria.

It is the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchies.

The Slovenian lands of Carinthia and …

In a plebiscite held in October 1920, the more southerly zone of Carinthia chooses Austria, so that no plebiscite is held in the northern zone around Klagenfurt; both zones are left to Austria.

Almost one-third of Europe's Slovene speakers are thus left outside the boundaries of Slovenia.

Slovene speakers in Italy and Austria continue to be subject to discrimination and political pressure by the dominant majorities …

Germany unleashes a reign of terror and Germanization in northern Slovenia.

Although the Nazis have deemed the Slovenes “racially salvageable”, the mainly Austrian rulers of the Carinthian and ...