Carniola, a crownland of the Austrian empire, SW. of Austria, on the Adriatic, S. of Carinthia; contains quicksilver mines, second only to those of Almaden, in Spain; the surface is mountainous, and the soil is not grain productive, though in some parts it yields wine and fine fruit.
Population (circa 1900) given as 500,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carnegie, Andrew * Carnival