Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)
3. The settlement structure of Slovakia
The settlement structure of Slovakia portion of the Hungarian people, who were in the majority in the southern part of the district, was only 1.71% and 0.21% in the two towns, respectively. The population of Komárno, a former large city, hardly increased in the past decades. It was 19,391 people in 1910, and it rose to 37,366 inhabitants in 2001. However, geographic location is a much more important factor in the division of towns, because, besides Komárno, Košice and Bratislava can also be categorized as towns along the southern, Hungarian and Slovak borders. On the other hand, Levice and Nové Zámky are towns close to the Hungarian and Slovak language boundary. Table 20. Slovak and Hungarian people in towns with more than 30,000 inhabitants, 2001 District towns other towns Slovak people Hungarian people Total people Hungarian % Other % Bratislava 391,761 16,451 428,672 3.84 4.77 Košice 210,340 8,940 236,093 3.79 7.12 Prešov 86,910 208 92,786 0.22 6.11 Nitra 83,285 1,489 87,285 1.71 2.88 Žilina 82,750 106 85,400 0.12 2.98 Banská Bystrica 78,690 446 83,056 0.54 4.72 Trnava 68,099 148 70,286 0.21 2.90 Martin 57,072 144 60,133 0.24 4.85 Trenčín 55,131 164 57,854 0.28 4.42 Poprad 52,868 131 56,157 0.23 5.62 Prievidza 51,319 255 53,097 0.48 2.87 Zvolen 41,980 218 43789 0.50 3.63 Považská Bystrica 41,796 40 42,773 0.09 2.19 Nové Zámky 29,446 11,632 42.262 27.52 2.80 Michalovce 37,777 132 39,948 0.33 5.10 Spišská Nová Ves 36,924 65 39,193 0.17 5.62 Komárno 12,960 22,452 37,366 60.09 5.23 Levice 30,997 4,469 36,538 12.23 2.93 Humenné 30,867 69 35,157 0.20 12.01 Bardeiov 30,346 48 33,247 0.14 8.58 Liptovský Mikuláš 31,049 91 33,007 0.28 5.66 Piešťany 29,475 84 30,606 0.27 3.42 Ružomberok 29,394 41 30,417 0.13 3.23 Z 1,60, 236 67,823 1,755,122 3.86 4.90 average 69,619 2,949 76,310 4.94 4.77 Source: Štatisticky úrad SR, Bratislava The high rate of the ‘other’ ethnicity category is especially striking. Whereas the large cities included in Table 20 have a Hungarian population of 3.86%, the proportion of other populations in the same towns is 58
