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 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