Ethnic and religious composition of Austria-Hungary


The ethno-linguistic composition of Austria-Hungary according to the census of 31 December 1910 was as follows:

Population

Largest cities

Data: census in 1910
RankCurrent English nameContemporary official nameOtherPresent-day countryPopulation in 1910Present-day population
1.ViennaWienBécs, Beč, DunajAustria2,031,498
1,840,573
2.PraguePrag, PrahaPrágaCzech Republic668,000
1,301,132
3.TriesteTriestTrieszt, TrstItaly229,510204,420
4.LvivLemberg, LwówIlyvó, Львів, Lvov, ЛьвовUkraine206,113728,545
5.CracowKrakau, KrakówKrakkó, KrakovPoland151,886762,508
6.GrazGrác, GradecAustria151,781328,276
7.BrnoBrünn, BrnoBerén, Börön, BörénvásárCzech Republic125,737377,028
8.ChernivtsiCzernowitzCsernyivci, Cernăuți, ЧернівціUkraine87,128242,300
9.PlzeňPilsen, PlzeňPilzenCzech Republic80,343169,858
10.LinzLinecAustria67,817200,841

RankCurrent English nameContemporary official nameOtherPresent-day countryPopulation in 1910Present-day population
1.BudapestBudimpeštaHungary1,232,026 1,735,711
2.SzegedSzegedin, SegedinHungary118,328170,285
3.SuboticaSzabadkaСуботицаSerbia94,610105,681
4.DebrecenHungary92,729208,016
5.ZagrebZágráb, AgramCroatia79,038803,000
6.BratislavaPozsonyPressburg, PrešporokSlovakia78,223425,167
7.TimișoaraTemesvárTemeswarRomania72,555319,279
8.KecskemétHungary66,834111,411
9.OradeaNagyváradGroßwardeinRomania64,169196,367
10.AradAradRomania63,166159,074
11.HódmezővásárhelyHungary62,44546,047
12.Cluj-NapocaKolozsvárKlausenburgRomania60,808324,576
13.ÚjpestHungary55,197100,694
14.MiskolcHungary51,459157,177
15.PécsHungary49,852145,347

Languages

In the Austrian Empire, the census of 1911 recorded Umgangssprache, everyday language. Jews and those using German in offices often stated German as their Umgangssprache, even when having a different Muttersprache. The Istro-Romanians were counted as Romanians.
In the Kingdom of Hungary, the 1910 census was based on mother tongue. According to the census, 54.4% of the inhabitants of Hungary were recorded to speak Hungarian as their native language. This number included the Jewish ethnic group who were overwhelmingly Hungarian-speaking.

Transleithanian lands (Kingdom of Hungary)

Historical regions

RegionMother TonguesHungarian languageOther languages
TransylvaniaRomanian – 2,819,467 1,658,045 German – 550,964
Upper HungarySlovak – 1,688,413 881,320 German – 198,405
DélvidékSerbo-Croatian – 601,770 425,672 German – 324,017
Romanian – 75,318
Slovak – 56,690
TranscarpathiaRuthenian – 330,010 185,433 German – 64,257
FiumeItalian – 24,212 6,493 Serbo-Croatian – 13,351
Slovene - 2,336
German - 2,315
ŐrvidékGerman – 217,072 26,225 Croatian – 43,633
MuravidékSlovene – 74,199 – in 192114,065 – in 1921German – 2,540 – in 1921

The Germans in Croatia were mainly living in the eastern parts of the country where they had been settled along the Drava and Danube rivers, and the former Military Frontier, after the Habsburg conquest of the area from the Ottomans in 1687.

Subgroups

The ethnic groups of the Austro-Hungarian empire subdivided according to their own sub-ethnic groups and regions they inhabited:

Germans

The ethnic germans of the Austro-Hungarian empire spoked a variety of dialects, which the following were spoken in the empire:

Czechs

The Czechs inhabited the three traditional Czech lands of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which had their own traditional ethnographical Czech groups. Further sub-ethnic groups of the Moravians included the Horáci, the Hanáki and the Moravian Wallachians.
Lower Austria was home to a significant Czech population; especially in the capital, Vienna. There was also significant Czech settlements in Galicia and Slavonia.

Slovaks

The inhabitants of the Moravian Slovakia region were considered in the 19th century as linguistically, speakers of the Czech language, but ethnically belonging to the Slovak ethnicity.
There were Slovak diaspora communnities in Austria, Hungary proper, Voivodina, Slavonia, Banat and Crișana.

Poles

Subgroups of the Polish population:

Ukrainians

Ethnographical groups associated or considered part of the Ukrainian ethnic group in the 19th century included: