The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 4/Number 6/The number of Slovaks in the Magyar state

THE NUMBER OF SLOVAKS IN THE MAGYAR STATE.

The Magyars complain that about half a million of their compatriots were assigned to the new Czechoslovak State, but on the other hand Magyar official statistics over 400,000 Slovaks they suppress the fact that even according to the were left in the Magyar State. Thus in the district of Nové Hrady there were, in 1919, 91,699 Slovaks of whom only 60,000 were incorporated into the Czechoslovak State, while over 30,000 of them were left to the Magyars. In the district of Pest-Pilis the Magyars counted, in 1910, 187,079 Slovaks, all of whom remained in the Magyar State. In the districts between the Danube and Tisza 13,633 Slovaks were left to the Magyars. On the right bank of the Danube, in the district opposite to Bratislava and Komárno, there are 56,771 Slovaks, who again were left to the Magyars. On the left bank of the River Tisza, especially in the district of Bekes, the Magyar official statistics of 1910 counted 86,802 Slovaks, in the district of Sabole 20,082 and in other district over 10,000, all of whom have remained in the Magyar State. Thus, in the above-mentioned districts there are, according to the Magyar official statistics, 404,367 Slovaks who are still under the Magyar rule and amply compensate the Magyars for their minorities incorporated in Czechoslovakia.