Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)

2. Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918

Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918

Table 1. The number and proportion of the Hungarian and Slovak ethnicities in the counties of Felvidék in 1910, following the classification used in the Slovak memorandum of 1861

County

Total

population

Hungarian

ethnicity

Slovak

ethnicity

German

ethnicity

people

people%

People

%

people

%

Trencsény

310,437

13,204

4.25

284,770

91.73

10,993

3.5

Árva

78,745

2,000

2.54

59,096

75.05

1,518

1.9

Túrócz

55,703

5,560

9.98

38,432

68.99

10,993

19.7

Liptó

86,906

4,365

5.02

78,098

89.86

2,591

3.0

Zólyom

133,653

16,509

12.35

113,294

84.77

2,124

1.6

Sáros

174,620

18,088

10.36

101,855

58.33

9,447

5.4

Szepes

172,867

18,658

10.79

91,011

56.16

38,434

22.2

I

1,012,931

78,384

7.74

772,622

76.28

76,100

7.5

Pozsony

311,527

131,662

42.26

154,344

49.54

21,032

6.8

Pozsony (town)

78,223

31,705

40.53

11,673

14.92

32,790

41.92

Nyitra

457,455

100,324

21.93

324,664

70.97

27,937

6.1

Bars

178,500

62,022

34.75

97,824

54.80

17,366

9.7

Hont

117,256

66,875

57.03

43,181

36.83

5,964

5.1

Selmecbánya (town)

15,185

6,340

41.75

8,341

54.93

453

2.98

Nógrád

261,517

197,670

75.59

58,337

22.31

3,143

1.2

Gömör-Kis-Hont

188,098

109,994

58.48

72,232

38.40

2,930

1.6

Abaúj-Torna

158,077

123,318

78.01

29,520

18.67

3,331

2.1

Kassa (town)

44,211

33,350

75.43

6,547

14.81

3,189

7.21

Zemplén

343,194

193,794

56.47

92,943

27.08

9,749

2.8

E

2,153,243

1,057,054

49.09

899,606

41.78

127,884

5.94

II

3,166,174

1,135,438

35.86

1,672,228

52,82

203,984

6.44

Source: Hungarian Statistical Publications. New series. Volume 27. The 1900 Census of the Countries of the Hungarian Holy Crown. Part 10. Summary of the Results. Budapest. Atheneum. 1909. pp. 102-103, and Volume 61. 1910. pp. 112-117.

2. 1 The towns of Felvidék (Upper Hungary) according to their population

At the point of time of the census of 1910, 35.13% of the more than three million people living in the 15 counties had Hungarian, and 54.34% had Slovak as their mother tongues. To the north of the language boundary, however, the difference was even larger: the proportion of the Slovaks was far above 50% there. In the seven counties belonging there, the 772,000 Slovak people accounted for 76.28% of the population compared to the 78,000 Hungarians, which amounted to 7.74%. In the

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