Carantania, also known as Carentania, was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia.
It was the predecessor of the March of Carinthia, created within the Carolingian Empire in 889.
Church of Maria Saal (Gospa Sveta)
The installation of the Dukes of Carinthia according to a Medieval chronicle
The early Slavs were an Indo-European peoples who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle Ages. The Slavs' original homeland is still a matter of debate due to a lack of historical records; however, scholars believe that it was in Eastern Europe, with Polesia being the most commonly accepted location.
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881)
The approximate frequency and variance distribution of haplogroup I2-P37 clusters, ancestral "Dnieper-Carpathian" (DYS448=20) and derived "Balkan" (DYS448=19: represented by a single SNP I-PH908), in Eastern Europe per O.M. Utevska (2017).
Reconstruction of a Slavic gatehouse in Thunau am Kamp, Austria. The site excavated in the 1980s dates back to the era of the Great Moravia in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Reconstruction of a Slavic hilltop Gród in Birów, Poland
