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2. Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918
Towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) before 1918 Table 4. The population and ethnicity composition of the towns in Felvidék (Upper Hungary) and present-day Slovakia in 1910 and in 2001, following the classification used in the Slovak memorandum of 1861 1910 2001 towns population Hungarian Slovak German other population Hungarian Slovak German other The 'northern* towns of Felvidék (Upper Hungary) (18) Epetjes/ Prešov 16.323 7,976 6,494 1,404 449 92.786 208 86,910 42 5,626 Rózsahegy/ Ružomberok 12.249 1,735 8,340 1,031 1,143 30.417 41 29,394 6 976 Besztercebánya/ Banská Bystrica 10.776 5,261 4.388 879 248 83,056 446 78,690 53 3,867 Igló/ Spišská Nová Ves 10,525 3,494 5,103 1,786 142 39,193 65 36,924 74 2,130 Zsolna/ Žilina 9.179 2.336 4,954 1,463 426 85,400 106 82,750 SI 2,487 Zólyom/ Zvolen 8,799 4,973 3,579 209 38 43.789 218 41,980 14 1.577 Trencsén/ Trenčín 7.805 2.997 3,676 925 207 57,854 164 55.131 25 2,534 Lőcse/ Levoča 7,528 2,410 3,094 1.377 647 14.366 15 12,509 8 1,834 Bánfa/ Bardejov 6,578 2,179 2,571 1,617 211 33,247 48 30,346 3 2,850 Késmárk/ Kežmarok 6.317 1,314 1,606 3,242 155 17,383 26 16,550 74 733 Breznóbánya/ Brezno 4.179 1.010 3,081 73 15 22.875 50 21.239 7 1.579 Gňlnicbánya/ Gelnica 3,833 606 1,098 2,095 34 6,404 6 6,143 52 203 Kisszeben/ Sabinov 3.288 1,168 1,640 341 139 12,290 7 11,137 1 1,145 Szepesváralja/ Spišské Podhradie 3,129 566 1,832 713 18 3,780 1 3,490 1 288 Szepesbéla/ Spišská Belá 2,894 355 1,258 1,247 34 6,136 4 5.818 16 298 Leibic/ Ľubica 2.782 213 1,311 1,135 123 3,677 1 3,443 2 231 Szepesolaszi/ Spišské Vlachy 2,413 340 1,613 440 20 3,518 2 3,441 0 75 Poprád/ Poprad 2.283 689 758 818 18 56,157 131 52,868 119 3,039 Total: 120,880 39,622 56,396 20,795 4,067 612,328 1,539 578 763 554 31,472 % 32.8 46.7 17.2 3.4 0.3 94.5 0.1 5.1 compaid w«h 1910.%_________________ _ 506.6 3.9 1.026.2 2.7 773.8 The ‘southern* towns of the Felvidék (Upper Hungary) (21) Pozsony/ Bratislava 78,223 31,705 11,673 32,790 2,055 428,672 16,451 391,761 1,200 19,260 Kassa/ Košice 44.211 33,350 6,547 3,189 1,125 236,093 8,940 210,340 398 16,415 Sátoraljaújhely 19,940 IX. 965 478 273 224 18,335 17,638 220 183 294 Nyitra/ Nitra 16,419 9,754 4,929 1.636 100 87.285 1,489 83.285 47 2,464 Érsekújvár/ Nové Zámky 16.228 14,838 964 377 49 42.262 11,632 29,446 13 1.171 Selmecbánya/ Banská Štiavnica 15.185 6,340 8,341 453 51 10,874 43 10,213 12 606 Nagyszombat/ Trnava 15,163 4,593 8,032 2,280 258 70.286 148 68,099 37 2,002 Losonc/ Lučenec 12.939 10.634 1,675 428 202 28.332 3,713 23.127 8 1,484 Léva/ Levice 9,675 8,752 688 199 36 36,538 4,469 30,997 7 1,065 Rimaszombat/ Rimavská Sobota 6,912 6,199 468 91 154 25,088 8,846 14,873 13 1,356 Rozsnyó/ Rožňava 6,565 5,886 406 159 114 19,261 5,162 13,343 12 744 Dobsina/ Dobšiná 5,029 1,739 1,503 1,688 99 4,896 31 4,337 16 512 Szakokra/ Skalica 5,018 505 4,155 259 99 15,013 19 14,239 5 750 Modor/ Modra 5,009 347 4,124 525 13 8,536 35 8,315 14 172 Újbánya/ Nová Baňa 4,813 470 4,256 79 8 7,505 7 7,318 3 177 Bazin/ Pezinok 4,809 575 2,642 1,558 34 21.082 no 20,347 21 604 Körmöcbánya/ Kremnica 4,515 1,501 1,482 1,514 18 5,822 19 5,575 69 159 Korpona/ Krupina 4,016 484 3,460 24 48 7,991 27 7,802 4 158 Szentgyörgy/ Svätý Jur 3,458 641 1,897 916 4 4,614 18 4,499 10 87 Jolsva/ Jelšava 2,846 2,289 449 42 66 3,287 81 2,774 1 431 Nagyrőcze/ Revúca 1,925 1,000 884 37 4 13,466 291 12,405 7 763 Total 282,898 160,567 69,053 48,517 4,761 1,095,238 79,169 963,315 2,080 50,674 % 56.8 24.4 17.1 1.7 7.2 88.0 0.2 4.6 Chanees compared with 1910, % 387.1 49.3 1.395.0 4.3 1,064.4 Combined total 403,778 200,189 125,449 69.312 8,828 1.707,566 80,708 1,542,078 2,634 82,146 % 49.6 31.1— TrT 2.2 4.7 90.3 0.2 4.8 Changes compared with 1910, % 422.9 40.3 1,229.2 3.8 930.5 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 64. 1910. pp. 130-133. The figures of the 2001 census are from the Slovak Central Statistical Office. * Sátoraljaújhely is listed in the memorandum of 1861 as a town belonging to a county with mixed ethnicities. 28
