Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)
3. The settlement structure of Slovakia
Urban structure in Slovakia 4.90%. Among them, the number of the Czech people is the highest (23,298), followed by Gypsies with 15,685 people and, with 5,879 people, Ruthenians. In the cities an especially high number of people simply did not answer this question (24,847). Table 21 shows the connection between geographical situation and the size and ethnic composition of the urban population. Table 21. Towns with over 10% of inhabitants of Hungarian ethnicity, 2001 Slovak people Hungarian people Total people Hungarian % Other % Veľký Meder 1,226 7,705 9,113 84.55 2.00 Kolárovo 1,890 8,742 10,823 80.77 1.76 Dunajská Streda 3,588 18,756 23,519 79.75 5.00 Kráľovský Chlmec 1.515 6,179 8,031 76.94 4.20 Štúrovo 3,294 8,048 11,708 68.74 3.13 Šamorín 3,760 8,091 12,143 66.63 2.40 Fiľakovo 3,079 6,568 10,198 64.40 5.40 Šahy 2,787 5,015 8,061 62.21 3.21 Tomaľa 2,432 5,076 8,169 62.14 8.09 Čierna nad Tisou 1,554 2,792 4,645 60.11 6.44 Komárno 12,960 22,452 37,366 60.09 5.23 Veľké Kapušany 3,506 5,561 9,760 56.98 7.10 Želiezovce 3,543 3,855 7,522 51.25 1.65 Hurbanovo 3,711 4,092 8,153 50.19 4.29 Moldava nad Bodvou 4,847 4,158 9,525 43.65 5.46 Sládkovičovo 3,614 2,340 6,078 38.50 2.04 Galanía 9,877 6,022 16,365 36.80 2.85 Rimavská Sobota 14,873 8,846 25,088 35.26 5.46 Nové Zámky 29,446 11,632 42,262 27.52 2.80 Rožňava 13,343 5,162 19,261 26.80 3.93 Senec 10,970 3,246 14,673 22.12 3.11 Šaľa 19,583 4,392 24,564 17.88 2.40 Lučenec 23,127 3,713 28,332 13.11 5.27 Levice 30,997 4,469 36,538 12.23 2.93 Total 209,522 166.912 391,897 42.59 3.95 Average: 8,730 6,955 16,329 49.94 4.01 Source: Štatisticky úrad SR, Bratislava Table 21, the most typical proof of Slovakization, includes all of the towns where the proportion of Hungarian people exceeds 10% of the population. These towns can all be found in the south of Slovakia. All of them are close to or within the Hungarian language border and most of them belong to the Hungarian and Slovak borderland. While the most populous settlement groups of Slovakia include the towns with a population of 20-50,000 people, only seven out of the towns with a Hungarian 59
