English Translation

24a OBKOGSA~ B ~4 Bocskay revolution had thoroughly depopulated Hungary, in the following period until Josef Il. began a migration of peoples in Hungary. The depopulate range, areas could feed ten times as many people, and a census of Joseph II in the year 1787 already indicates a population of about 8 million, in dexvert half of the l8. In the 19th century, there was a great emigration from Slovakia to the Lower Land, as well as from Germans from Austria and from Germany, The Dynasty and some:adelige large landowners settled folk tribes of different origin and different languages. The population of Hungary, from 1720 to 1787 (including the seven-year-olds) rose by a straight 31%; but by a special coincidence of circumstances, the increase in the Slovak Gaus shows only about 170%, in the magyar and the non-lovak at all 220 to 350%, although it is impossible to determine precisely the strength of the individual nationalities, by estimate Jászis the number of Magyars in 1878 was about 2, 322,000, i.e. So there were 5,600,00o ("A nemzeti állam kialakulása", p.367), Budapest, Szegedin, Klausenburg, Hermannstadt, the Upper-Aryan cities and Pressburg were German, the Bekecz diocese was mostly Slovak, Oedenburg, Wieselburg, Komorn, Raab, Essegs, Vesprim, Eisenstadt etc. German, Transdanubia was an area partly inhabited by Magyars, but mostly Croatian and German, Levice was German, the surroundings of Budapest Slovak, the Germans predominated in Neusatz and Temeshburg, the Serbs and'the Germans in Peterwardein. In Kecskemet in 1782 German was taught at the schools. In 1763 Adan Kollár uttered the fear that the Magyars, of whom there would be very little in Hungary, would die out ganx, Schwartneri counted in the year 1880? about 3 millicens of magya- speaking citizens, but already in 1850 5 mil. were officially established and only 6,300,000 non-magyaren. Then the Magyarentum grew rapidly, (Rappant: "Prúdy", year VI. pp. 513 - 19). It is not therefore possible to speak exclusively of violent ma- gyarization, of Cer we credible evidence before -5-