Editing Carniola (section)

===Antiquity and Middle Ages===
{{See also|Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps}}
[[File:Karniola around 800.png|thumb|right|300px|Old Slavic Carniola around 800 AD]]

Before the coming of the Romans ({{Circa|200 BC}}), the [[Taurisci]] dwelt in the north of Carniola, the [[Pannonians]] in the southeast, the [[Iapodes]] or [[Carni]], a Celtic tribe, in the southwest.<ref name=CE/>

Carniola formed part of the [[Roman province]] of [[Pannonia]]; the northern part was joined to [[Noricum]], the south-western and south-eastern parts and the city of [[Aemona]] to Venice and [[Istria]]. In the time of Augustus all the region from [[Aemona]] to the [[Kolpa]] River (Culpa) belonged to the province of [[Pannonia Savia|Savia]].<ref name=CE/>

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476), Carniola was incorporated into [[Odoacer]]'s Kingdom of Italy, and then in 493, under Theodoric, it formed part of the [[Ostrogothic Kingdom]]. Between the upper [[Sava]] and the [[Soča]] rivers lived the Carni, and towards the end of the sixth century [[Slavs]] settled the region called by Latin writers ''Carnia'', or ''Carniola'' meaning 'little Carnia'; i.e., part of greater Carnia.<ref name=CE/> The Latin name was later borrowed into Slavic, becoming ''Kranjska'',<ref name="Snoj">{{cite book |last1=Snoj |first1=Marko |title=Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen |trans-title=Etymological dictionary of Slovenian geographical names |date=2009 |publisher=Modrijan |location=Ljubljana |pages=210–211}}</ref> and into German as ''Chrainmark, Krain''.

The new inhabitants, to whom modern historiography frequently refers to as [[Alpine Slavs]], were subjected to the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]], but around 623 they joined the Slavic tribal union of [[Samo]]. After Samo's death in AD 658, they fell again under the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avar]] rule, but most probably enjoyed partial autonomy.