I am looking for what would be the correct spelling for the this city. This is the way it was spelling on a passenger manifest.

Radakowac Carniola

Thank you,

Mary

Hi.

Rada is a name and Kovač is a surname, Carniola is a town called Kranj.

Katarina

Carniola is also a north west region of slovenia. (gorenjska)

Probably the correct name could be the village of Radakovo in the municipality of Kraljevec na Sutli, the Krapinsko-zagorska county in today`s Croatia, situated in the border region to Slovenia (what was Carniola in the past).

Carniola is the english name for the former Austrian crownland
Krain - now in most parts Slovenia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniola
>> Carniola (Slovene: Kranjska; German: Krain) is a traditional and historical region of Slovenia. As part of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land officially known as the Duchy of Carniola (Vojvodina Kranjska, Herzogtum Krain) until 1918. The region is subdivided into Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola (with White Carniola), and Inner Carniola. <<

crownland/Kronland Krain in the former austrian-hungarian Empire:
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/webpages/kuk_Krain.gif
http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/hiresfaksimile_503984...
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/germany/krain1892t.gif
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/xcarniola.html

the "town" Krain/Krainburg is not Carniola and Carniola means the above Krain-territory at Habsburg-times. Todays Slovenia includes this and some parts more like former hungarian and also austrian parts like Untersteiermark and Mießtal.