RELIGION — IN STRUCTION
791
and population of the various provinces, according to the census of 1910, are
as follows : —
Area in
Square
Area in English
kilometres sq. miles
Population ' Population
Dec. 31, 1 per square
1910 kilometre
• 51,947
Moravia
Silesia 4,131
Slovakia 49,659
Ruthenia ... 12.097 German and Austrian territories assigned to the Czecho-slnvak Republic by the Peace Con- ference m
1M, IM
20,065
6,768,548
130
8,534
118
1,596
608,128
147
19,173
-.846
59
4,670
mjou
47
111. 00'.'
54,438 13,636,390
123 97
The census in Slovakia held in November 1919, showed a population of 2,940,374, including 2,141,000 Slovaks, 665,000 Jlagyars, and 140,322 Germans.
The population of the principal towns in 1910 was : —
Prague 223,741 Ostrava .... 37,000 Kladno 19,000
Brno 125,737 Uberec 36,000 Pardubice .... 20,000
Plzen 81,165 Budejovice . . . 45,000 Olouiouc ....
Bratislava .... 73,459 t'sti 39,000 Stiavnica .... 15,000
Kosice . ... 40,470 I Vitkovice .... 23,000 Nitra 16,000
Religion. — The majority of the population is Catholic. In 1910 the division of the population according to religion was :— -Roman Catholics. 11,836,933; Greek Catholics, 592,115 ; Protestants, 976,567 ; Greek Orthodox, 3,060 ; Old Catholics, 17,136 ; Jews, 368,970.
In January, 1920, the reformed clergy of Czecho-Slovakia decided to with- draw from the jurisdiction of the Pope and to found a National Church.
Instruction. — Instruction is compulsory between the age of 6 and 14. The schools may be divided as follows : (1) National Schools (Elementary and Advanced Public Schools) ; (2) Secondary Latin and Technical Schools (Gymnasia and Real-Schools) ; (3) Universities and Higher Technical Schools ; and (4) Trade and Arts, Commercial, Mining and Agricultural, and other special schools. There are practically no illiterates except in Slovakia.
In the following table the figures for Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are for 1914, those for Slovakia and Ruthenia are for 1902-8 : —
Elementary Public Schools Advanced Public Schools
No. of Schools
No. of Teachers
No. of No. of No. of Pupils chers
No. of PnpUs
Bohemia Moravia
5,693 2,692
572 4,063
618
16,720 7,232
1,020,534 624 3,294 434,351 258 1,155
114,295 37,609
Silesia
Slovakia Ruthenia .
1,765
6,318
949
123,803 33 199 397,250 91 4S4 56,375 9 51
7,791
11,628
1,284
13,638
32,984
2,032,313 1,021 | 5,133
172,607
