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 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): —