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	Carinthia (state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carinthia (German Kärnten) is an Austrian state or Land, located in the south of Austria.
		The once-independent Duchy of Carinthia was historically part of the Holy Roman Empire until it was dissolved in 1806, then a crownland of Austria-Hungary.
		Carinthia's main industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry and agriculture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carinthia_(state) (423 words)

	Carinthia (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carinthia (Slovene Koroška) is an informal province in the north of Slovenia.
		The area is often referred to as Slovene Carinthia in English to distinguish it from the neighbouring Austrian federal state of Carinthia.
		The Duchy of Carinthia was later controlled by the Habsburgs (1335 - 1918), under the Holy Roman Empire and later Austria-Hungary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carinthia_(province) (244 words)

	The Role of the United States and the Carinthian Question 1918-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carinthia as well as its neighbor to the east, Styria, were German with Sloven minorities on their southern border.
		Carinthia is a natural unit--her boundaries for the most part follow the crests of high mountains.
		The group that was chosen to go to Carinthia consisted of the two army officers, Miles and King, an expert on geography from the University of Wisconsin, Major Lawrence Martin, a professor of Slavic languages at the University of Missouri, Robert J. Kerner, as well as one Carinthian and one Slovene representative.
	www.austria.org /dec95/role.htm (2104 words)

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		Bilingual Carinthia tends to encompass the Jauntal, Rosental and Galital valleys.
		In the middle of the 19th century Southern Carinthia was a homogenous Slovene speaking area with the city of Klagenfurt being an centre of German-speakers.
		Article 7 states that Slovenes in Carinthia have the right to have their own organisations, press and public meetings in Slovene; to receive primary level education in Slovene and a modicum of secondary level education in that language as well as their own Inspectorate of Education.
	www.uoc.es /euromosaic/web/document/eslove/an/i2/i2.html (7151 words)

	The State News - www.statenews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Lorenz comes back to his dock with dry ice to stock on the Carinthia, a 40-foot J120 boat, on which he will be a part of a 10-member crew.
		Carinthia made its way down the Black River to the St. Claire and passed under the Blue Water Bridge to get to Lake Huron and its starting point about 4.5 miles north of the bridge.
	www.statenews.com /article.phtml?pk=18220 (754 words)

	Austria: Social democrats form coalition in Carinthia with Haider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		State head of the SPÖ, Peter Ambrozy, justified this stance by claiming that a three-way coalition against the FPÖ contravened the will of the electorate.
		The decision, he emphasised in a number of interviews, is limited to the state of Carinthia and has no significance for national politics.
		Despite all claims to the contrary, the coalition in Carinthia sends a signal regarding the readiness of the social democrats to entertain a coalition at the national level.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/aust-m23.shtml (1258 words)

	ACFC Opinions
		This state of affairs might negatively affect the harmonious coexistence between persons belonging to the Slovene minority and persons belonging to the majority, unless all competent authorities commit themselves to promptly identify practical solutions in consultation with the Slovene minority.
		Furthermore, a certain state of affairs may, in the light of the recent entry into force of the Framework Convention, be considered acceptable at this stage but that need not necessarily be so in further cycles of monitoring.
		The Advisory Committee notes that in Burgenland and Carinthia, the system of bilingual primary schools is a means to meet the requirements of Article 12 of the Framework Convention, one of the aims of which is to facilitate contacts among students and teachers of different communities.
	www.humanrights.coe.int /minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/AdvisoryCommittee/Opinions/Austria.htm (9773 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Austria: Legislation
		Article 7 states that Slovenes in Carinthia have the right to have their own organizations, press and public meetings in Slovene, the right to receive primary level education in Slovene and a modicum of secondary level education in that language as well as their own Inspectorate of Education.
		The leader of the province of Carinthia, Jörg Haider, in December 2001 announced that he considers the ruling to be a joke, and he intends to ignore it.
		The law states that any Austrian citizen who is eligible for membership of the Parliament and can be expected to represent the interests of the relevant ethnic group can become a member of the ethnic group council.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=13&TID=1 (5490 words)

	Carinthia stamps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But on Paris peace conference it was decided that people living in Carinthia should decide about their future on a referendum.
		So, Carinthia was divided into two parts: southern part which was named Zone A and was administered by Yugoslavia and northern Zone B which was under Austrian authority.
		Therefore whole Carinthia was given to Austria and Slovenia had lost a large part of its national territory.
	www14.brinkster.com /philayu/SLO/koroska.htm (208 words)

	May 1999: Austrian far-right election gains
		Subsequently, with the support of the conservative Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP), he was elected by the Carinthia state parliament as the new regional Landeshauptmann (governor).
		Actually, many of the factors contributing to Haider's success are not that unique: Carinthia, the southernmost Austrian state, with a population of 700,000, is a relatively poor region in the EU with the highest unemployment rates and lowest wages in Austria.
		On the other hand, Carinthia is the only Austrian region where the FPÖ has traditionally had a mass base, with a strong vote, public representatives and developed organisations.
	www.slp.at /cwi/infos_int/austrian_election.html (1016 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Ducal Court of Carinthia
		Proper Title: Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Carniola and the Windish March, Princely Count of Celje, Ortenburg, and Sternberg, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia, Lord of the Kingdom of Bosnia, Lord of the Slovenes, Lord of the Marches of Petovia and Savinia.
		Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Carniola and Slovenia
		States of the Holy Roman Empire, where required to enforce Imperial embargo, are excepted from this rule.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=157171 (8729 words)

	Venice Commission - Commission de Venise
		It is easier for federal states like Austria than for centralised states to make appropriate arrangements to take account of the presence of minority groups in a region.
		Indeed, when it first came into being and during the early decades of its existence, the Belgian State was dominated by a middle class whose vehicle of expression, in both the north and the south of the country, was the French language.
		In this regard, Belgium's system of federalism differs from the conventional type found in such countries as Switzerland and the United States, where the second chamber is the major instrument of participation by the federated states in the political life of the federal State.
	www.venice.coe.int /docs/1994/CDL-MIN(1994)007prov-e.asp (5848 words)

	Austria (02/06)
		The present boundaries of Austria, once the center of the Habsburg Empire that constituted the second-largest state in Europe, were established in accordance with the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919.
		The 62 members of the Federal Council are elected by the legislatures of the nine states for 5- to 6-year terms.
		U.S. citizens who are long-term visitors or traveling in dangerous areas are encouraged to register their travel via the State Department’s travel registration web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov or at the Consular section of the U.S. embassy upon arrival in a country by filling out a short form and sending in a copy of their passports.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3165.htm (3038 words)

	Heil Haider! The Revitalization of the Austrian Freedom Party 1986-1991Translated by WordPort from Nota Bene ver. 4 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Viennese city and state elections five weeks later, the FPÖ proclaimed a 'sensational' further step in the 'victory march of the Haider-FPÖ', however, the low voter turnout was at least significant in revealing the inability of the Lager to mobilize their electorates.
		Although this was simultaneously a city and state election, in the federal capital of Vienna the dividing line between local and federal politics is murky, which the FPÖ was able to use to its advantage.
		In all three states, but particularly in Carinthia, the personality of Haider and his populist attacks on behalf of the 'little man' against the comfortable cooperation of the corrupt 'old parties' and demands for political renewal dominated the campaign.
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~mriedlsp/Publications/gsa91.html (11930 words)

	The Militant - Vol.63/No.36 - October 18, 1999 -- Ultrarightist gains in Austria elections
		Haider heads the government in the state of Carinthia, a post he first won in 1989, three years after becoming leader of Freedom Party.
		In 1991 he criticized the Austrian coalition government's employment policy, stating that Hitler's policy during the Nazi era was better.
		He was forced to resign his post as chief of the state government, but regained it in March 1999 with 42 percent of the votes in the state elections in Carinthia.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6336/633647.html (1019 words)

	Carinthia (disambiguation)
		Carinthia - a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire and crownland of Austria-Hungary
		Carinthia - the first state of the Slovenians in the 7th century
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Carinthia.html (79 words)

	Carinthia
		When the last Duke of Carinthia from the Götz-Tyrol dynasty died without heirs, the territory passed to the Habsburgs in 1335.
		In 1819 troops of the State of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia (“SHS State”) occupied the south of Carinthia.
		The 1919 Treaty of St Germain gave the Canal Valley to Italy, and several municipalities in the south to the SHS State.
	www.eu2006.at /en/Austria/Bundeslaender/Carinthia.html (220 words)

	Virtual Vienna Net: Austria's History
		Austria emerged from the Second World War and the sufferings associated with it as a state that feels secure in its existence and which plays a decisive role in Europe.
		From the end of the 13th century to the middle of the 15th century the Habsburgs expanded their territory by gaining the Duchy of Carinthia (1335), the Earldom of Tyrol and the "Windische Mark" (1365).
		The Congress of Vienna, which was presided over by Austrian State Chancellor Prince Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich, the "Coachman of Europe", restored the old order in Europe in 1815.
	www.virtualvienna.net /austria/about/austria_history.html (1778 words)

	Carinthia
		Carinthia has mines (lead, zinc, and magnesite) and well-developed farms (especially in the fertile Drava, or Drau, plain).
		The only Austrian province with an appreciable ethnic minority, Carinthia has a Slovene population of approximately 2.7% in the south.
		Heiligenblut - Heiligenblut [Ger.,=holy blood], village, Carinthia prov., SW Austria, at the foot of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0810443.html (255 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Austria: Minority groups
		Carinthia was the center of the inter war German Nationalist Party of Austria (Deutschnationale Partei) and it is a place of work of the current right wing governor Jörg Haider and the Freedom Party (FPÖ).
		On November 14, state government workers wanted to remove the signs but their effort was hampered by Franz Josef Smrtnik, the local councilor representing the Slovenian minority, who chained himself to one of the signs.
		Article 7 of the Austrian State Treaty states that districts with Croat and Slovene speaking minorities in the provinces of Carinthia, Styria and Burgenland must have bilingual signage and topography.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=13&TID=4 (2249 words)

	Slovenians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Slovenian ethnic territory subsequently shrunk due to pressing of Germans from the west and the arrival of Hungarians in the Pannonian plain, and stabilized in the present form in the 15th century.
		The Ausrian part of Carinthia remained part of Austria and estimated 25,000-40.000 Slovenians in the Austrian state of Carinthia were recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights following the State Treaty (Staatsvertrag) dated from 1955.
		The Slovenians in the Austrian state of Styria are not recognized as a minority and do not enjoy special rights, although the State Treaty from July 27, 1955 obliges to do so.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/s/sl/slovenians.html (719 words)

	Styria - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It borders Carinthia, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Burgenland, and Slovenia.
		Motorways A2 from Vienna to Carinthia and A9 from Linz to the slovenian border cross at Graz.
		There is also a possibility to get to Styria using the Drau bicycle route from Tyrol and Carinthia, either via Maribor or via another bicycle route at the very south of the Styria/Carinthia border that crosses over to the Mur bicycle route.
	wikitravel.org /en/Styria (575 words)

	English News Archive: March 17 to March 3, 1999
		Haider is seeking to become governor of Carinthia after his anti-immigrant Freedom Party won 42 percent of the vote on Sunday to become the largest party in the southern state.
		The United States and Britain, which collected Nazi gold after World War II, had returned all but six tons to the countries from which it was looted, and it has been agreed to use that gold for Holocaust survivors and their families.
		An acting State Supreme Court justice granted the motion, but the appeals court said the subpoena was not authorizing a ``seizure.'' Rather, the paintings were being brought before the court as physical evidence.
	vho.org /News/GB/SRN10_99.html (10281 words)

	1st_SR_Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 15th century, a language boundary was thus established in Carinthia running along the line of Hermagor-Villach-Maria Saal-Diex-Lavamünd; it largely remained in existence until the mid-19th century.
		The Rat der Kärntner Slowenen/Narodni svet koroških Slovencev (Council of Slovenes in Carinthia) was established in 1949 as an independent association and is one of the two central organisations representing the Slovenes in Carinthia.
		5 of the State Treaty of Vienna to prohibit the activity of organisations whose aim is to deprive the Croat or Slovene population of their minority character or rights.
	www.coe.int /T/e/human_rights/minorities/2._FRAMEWORK_CONVENTION_(MONITORING)/2._Monitoring_mechanism/3._State_Reports_and_UNMIK_Kosovo_Report/1._First_cycle/1st_SR_Austria.asp (13458 words)

	TheTravelzine.com Austria Fall 2005 - 8 - Klagenfurt
		is the capital of Carinthia, the southernmost Province of Austria.
		We arrived in the heart of the city in the late afternoon and were immediately impressed by the beautiful Renaissance buildings, squares and courtyards which, due to its proximity to Italy, were mainly created by Italian architects.
		There is some debate as to whether her motivations were for the good of the population or for the economic benefit to the state.
	www.thetravelzine.com /Austria_2005_8_Klagenfurt.htm (1752 words)

	Secretary of State for the Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet official in charge of managing the British colonies.
		Previously those responsibilities had fallen the Secretary of State for the Southern Department who was responsible for Southern England Ireland the American colonies and relations with Catholic and Muslim states of Europe.
		In 1794 a new office was created for Henry Dundas - the Secretary of State for War which now took responsibility for the and was renamed the Secretary of State for War and the in 1801.
	www.freeglossary.com /Secretary_of_State_for_the_Colonies (1390 words)

	First independent state
		Slovenes had their first state Carinthia (Karantania) even in the 7th century.
		The ritual installation of the duke of Carinthia was conducted in the Slovene language until the fifteenth century.
		The installation helped Jefferson develop the theory of the right of people to appoint their own leaders and of the power that emerges from the people themselves, ideas that he drew on when writing the Declaration of Independence.
	www.uvi.si /10years/contribution/carinthia.html (148 words)

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