Kroatengau
The Kroatengau ( pagus Chrovvati or Crowati ) was a district in the Duchy of Bavaria or Duchy of Carinthia in the 10th and 11th centuries.
geography
The Kroatengau was probably only in the area on the upper Glan around St. Veit and Leoben in today's Styria. There were also settlements of chrobats in Krappfeld , Zollfeld and beyond Villach and beyond the Drau .
In the north, the Kroatengau was bounded by the County of Friesach (Gau Gurcatal), in the east by the Gau Lavanttal , in the southeast it met the County of Jauntal (Gau Junotal), in the south by the Karantanengau and in the west by the Lurngau .
The place names could indicate chrobats
- Krobarhen , a district of Glanegg in the Glantal , Carinthia
- Krobathen / Hrovače , Sankt Veit an der Glan district , Carinthia
- Krobathen / Hrovače , in the Klagenfurt field , Carinthia
- Krobathen , district of Southeast Styria
- Grabersdorf , originally Krabatsdorf in Carinthia , also an aristocratic family of the Krabatsdorfer
- Krautkogel in Carinthia
history
The Croats were a kind of warrior caste on the borders of the Avar Empire and also gave their name to today's Croatian people . The origin of the name is not entirely clear, but it seems to be of non-Slavic origin. The pagus Chrouuati appears in the written sources for the first time in the middle of the 10th century as an administrative district in the Duchy of Bavaria . The administrator was called Walpot and had special powers. In 976 he was assigned to the newly formed Duchy of Carinthia .
Known public officials are:
- Hartwig I. († 985), the later Bavarian Count Palatine was
- his descendants, the Palatine Aribones , who also reached out to neighboring Lurngau ( Millstatt Abbey )
- Otger / Ozi († before 1028), count , missus from the Otakare family , the founder of Ossiach
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Zollfeld with the Karnburg and Maria Saal formed the core area of Carantania, the pagus Karintriche ( Karantanengau ), cf. Heinz Dopsch: The Styrian Otakars in The Becoming of Styria , 1980
- ↑ http://members.chello.at/heinz.pohl/ON_Anhang.htm