A BLOG ABOUT SLOVAKIA AND LIFE IN BRATISLAVA AND THE EU.
Decided to start a Blog about Bratislava, and the politics of the country because most of the blogs about Slovakia and Bratislava in english were either brief entries from travellers passing through Bratislava with no idea about the place and commented largely about beer and other "vital issues" like that, or the more serious ones usually run by moronic americans preaching their judaeo-christian hyper-religious extreme-pro-capitalist & oligopolistic anti-democratic religion coupled with their famed grasp of geography.
There are also some Brits that have a slightly better grasp of geography than their US cousins. However brits are largely trying to recreate colonial glories and their grasp of facts in Bratislava tends to be confused even at the BBC. Most of the experiences the brits have are from lager-lout type pissups in Bratislava and use that crap movie "Hostel" as their intellectual compass.
This blog aspires to discuss serious matters with humour and no-nonsense analysis. Its unapologetically intellectual and refuses to allow this term to be ascribed with a negative meaning the way that the word liberal has become negative in the US.
Clearly there is much love about this great city and country, but without pandering to any special interests or prejudices.
Comments are welcome and will never be deleted or blocked if they offer a contrarian view.
“Inhabited largely by German traders before the 19th cent., the city then became predominantly Magyar.”
ReplyDeleteErr, no. According to Wikipedia, “Before World War I, the city had 42% German, 41% Hungarian and 15% Slovak population (1910 census). “ and the German entry gives even more info – here's a summary, for those non-German speakers:
1850/51: 74.59 % Germans, 17.9 % Slovaks and 7.4 % Magyars
1890: 59.9 % Germans, 19.9 % Magyars and 8,709 16.6 % Slovaks
1919: 36 % Germans, 33 % Slovaks, 29 % Magyars and 1.7 % others
1930: 33 % Slovaks, 25 % Germans, 23 % Czechs, 16 % Magyars and 3.833 % Jews
thanks! nice. Note though that the "methodology" is very rough.
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