AREA AND POPULATION
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they must be able to read and write. The executive is in the hands of the official body of the municipality, who sit and vote with the council.
In Croatia and Slavonia each county has an assembly similar to the Hungarian local representative bodies. The electoral qualification is the same as for the Diet. The municipalities within the county (except Zagrab and Eszek) send delegates, and the higher county officials also sit and vote. In the rural communes the representative body is the council, elected for three years ; in the towns for four years. In the former the executive is in the hands of the magistrates ; in the latter, of the municipal council.
I.
Area and Population.
-PrOGKESS and PllESENi" CONDITION.
The Hungarian dominions, including Croatia and Slavonia, have an area of 324,857 square kilometres, or 125,395 English square miles. At the last four census enumerations the total (civil and military) population was as follows : —
Year
Population Absolute increase
Yearly increase per cent.
1880 1890 1900 1910
15,739,259 i — 17,463,791 1,724,532 19,254,559 1,790,768 20,886,787 1,631,928
0-99
0-93 0-85
The following table gives further details
Area :
Ponulation. Dec.
31
Popula- tion per sq. mile 1910
Provinces
English square miles
1^90 '
1900
1910
Civil population: Hungary Proper Croatia and Slavonia
108,977 16,418
15,162,988 2,186,410
16,721,574 2,400,766
18,142,200 2,602,544
20,744,744
166 159
Hungary
125,3r5
17,349,898
19,122,340
165
Population in active
military service : Hungary Proper Croatia and Slavonia
98,876 15,517
116,681 15,538
122,333 19,410
Hungary .
—
114,393
132,219
141,743
—
Total population : Hungary Proper Croatia and Slavonia
108,977 16,418
15,261,864 2,201,927
16,838,255 2,416,304
19,254,559
18,264.533 2,621,954
168 160
Total Hungary
125,395
17,463,791
20,886,487
167
The ethnical elements of the total population on the basis of language was as follows in 1890,1900 and 1910 (in Hungary including Croatia and Slavonia): —
