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

2. Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918

Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918

Figure 2. Counties with ’Slovak majority’ and ’mixed ethnicities’ as defined in the 1861 Turócszentmárton (Martin) memorandum

The areas mostly populated by the Slovak people were really the 16 counties of the 19m century Felvidék (Upper Hungary) (15 after the fusion of Abaúj and Toma). The fewest Slovak people were living in Transylvania and Croatia. However, mainly during the period after the Turks had been expelled, they were present in the whole of historical Hungary. According to the census of 1880 there were 1,864,529 inhabitants whose mother tongue was Slovak registered in the whole of the Hungarian empire. Their number had increased to 2,008,744 by 1900, but then it started to decrease slightly: 1,967,970 people were registered in 1910. Of those registered, 83.62%, i.e. 1,672,228 people, lived in the counties mentioned in the memorandum, with the population of the three municipal boroughs (Pozsony [Bratislava], Kassa [Košice] and Selmecbánya [Banská Štiavnica]) included.

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Edited by István Mezei, drawn by Máté Mády