Duchy of Carinthia

Duchy of Carinthia Herzogtum Kärnten (German) Vojvodina Koroška (Slovene)
976–1918
Flag Coat of arms
Carinthia (yellow) within Inner Austria, c. 1790
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), Part of the Habsburg monarchy (from 1526), constituent land of the Austrian Empire (1804–67), Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary (from 1867)
Capital	Sankt Veit an der Glan (Šentvid ob Glini) until 1518, then Klagenfurt (Celovec)
Common languages	Southern Bavarian, Carinthian Slovene
Government	Duchy
Duke
• 976–978	Henry I (first)
• 1916–1918	Charles I (last)
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Created Duchy	976
• To Habsburg dukes of Austria	1335
• Incorporated into Inner Austria	1379
• Joined Austrian Circle	1512
• Upper Carinthia ceded to Illyrian Provinces	1809
• Restored to Austrian Empire	1815
• Disestablished	1918
• Carinthian Plebiscite	1920
Preceded by Succeeded by March of Carinthia Republic of German-Austria Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom of Italy
Today part of	Austria Italy Slovenia

The Duchy of Carinthia (German: Herzogtum Kärnten; Slovene: Vojvodina Koroška) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchies.

Carinthia remained a State of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, though from 1335 it was ruled within the Austrian dominions of the Habsburg dynasty. A constituent part of the Habsburg monarchy and of the Austrian Empire, it remained a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary until 1918. By the Carinthian Plebiscite in October 1920, the main area of the duchy formed the Austrian state of Carinthia.