The Use of Minority Place Names on Maps of the Third Austrian Military Survey – With a Regional Focus on Slovenian and Croatian Lands

ABSTRACTThe paper investigates into the rendering of minority place names on maps of the Third Austrian Military Survey, i.e. the Francisco-Josephinian topographical survey in the scales 1:75 000 (‘Special Map’) and 1:200 000 (‘General Map’) executed and edited by the Military-Geographical Institute in Vienna in the 1870s and 1880s with a regional focus on two sample areas, i.e. bilingual (German–Slovenian) southern Carinthia and Italian–Croatian parts of the Austrian Littoral. On the background of already well-established national identities and a rather well-developed nationality legislation in these Austrian crownlands, the paper shows the extent to which the rendering of place names for all feature types on official maps reflects nationality rights, inter–ethnic relations and Viennese state policies.