!!!Kärntner Volksabstimmung

Carinthian Plebiscite, October 10, 1920: in the Peace Treaty of 
Saint-Germain (1919) it was decided that a plebiscite was to be held 
in the border territories of southeastern Carinthia on whether this 
area should stay within Austrian territory. The "zone A" (with a high 
percentage of Slovene speaking people) returned a majority of 59 
percent (22,025 votes) in favour of Austria (with 41 percent or 15,279 
people voting in favour of Yugoslavia). The clear majority of votes in 
favour of Austria in "zone A" had the effect that no plebiscite was 
held in "zone B" (area to the north of zone A with a small number of 
Slovene speaking inhabitants).  Abstimmungsgebiete.

!Literature
Kaerntner Abwehrkampf 1918/19 - Volksabstimmung am 
10. Oktober 1920, exhibition catalogue, Voelkermarkt 1984; 
Carinthian Provincial Archives (ed.), Der 10. Oktober 1920, 1990.


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