!!!Karantaner

Carantanians, Alpine Slavs invading Carinthia in the 7%%sup th/% <sub> 
</sub> century and driven westward upstream the River Drau/Drava. By 
the time of their greatest expansion the Carantanians had penetrated 
as far as Lower Austria, Upper Austria (the Ennstal Valley, Salzburg 
(Lungau), Styria and East Tirol. At first they were under Avar rule, 
then attached to Bavaria in the 8%%sup th/%  century and later had 
Carolingian rulers. During Carolingian rule the Carantanians largely 
converted to Christianity and were politically integrated.


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