Slovenian place names in Carinthia

This paper describes the namescape (or ‘onymic landscape’) of the Austrian state of Carinthia, which combines elements of both Slovenian and German (Bavarian) origin. The article comprises three sections. The first recounts the history of the territory of Carinthia. The second analyses the linguistic characteristics of the region, focusing above all on the relationship between the different forms of Slovenian and German place names. Finally, the third, on the basis of the existence in Carinthia of a tradition for common place names, examines the main features of the bilingual place-naming system from a comparative perspective