      carantania, also known as carentania (, , in old slavic ) was a slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern austria and north-eastern slovenia. it was the predecessor of the march of carinthia, created within the carolingian empire in 889. ==origin of the name== the name carantania is of pre-slavic origin. paul the deacon mentions slavs in carnuntum, which is erroneously called carantanum (carnuntum, quod corrupte vocitant carantanum).simoniti vasko, Å tih peter (1996): slovenska zgodovina do razsvetljenstva. celovec, mohorjeva druÅ¾ba in korotan. another possible etymology is that it may have been formed from a toponymic base carant- which ultimately derives from pre-indo-european root *karra meaning 'rock', or that it is of celtic origin and derived from *karantos meaning 'friend, ally'. its slavic name  was adopted from the latin *carantanum. the toponym carinthia (slovene:  < proto-slavic ) is also claimed to be etymologically related, deriving from pre-slavic *carantia.france bezlaj, etimoloÅ¡ki slovar slovenskega jezika (slovenian etymological dictionary). vol. 2: k-o / edited by bogomil gerlanc. - 1982. p. 68. ljubljana: mladinska knjiga, 1976-2005. ==territory== carantania's capital was most likely karnburg (slovene: krnski grad) in the zollfeld field (), north of modern-day town of klagenfurt (). the principality was centered in the area of modern carinthia, and included territories of modern styria, most of today's east tyrol and of the puster valley, the lungau and 
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