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Ethnographic Divisions of the Czecho-Slovak Republic 1930 

       Czechs and Slovaks             9,688,718   66.92%

       Germans                        3,231,718   22.32%

       Hungarians                       692,121    4.78%

       Ruthenes                         549,043    3.79%

       Jews                             186,474    1.29%

       Poles                             81,741     .56%

       Other Citizens                    49,465     .34%

       Aliens                           250,031

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       Total                         14,729,536

Religious Faiths of the Czecho-Slovak Republic 1930


        Roman Catholic                10,831,696    73.54%

        Protestant                     1,129,758     7.67%

        Czechoslovak Church              793,385     5.39%

        Greek Catholic                   585,041     3.97%

        Israelite                        358,830     2.42%

        Orthodox                         145,598      .99%

        Old Catholic                      22,712      .16%

        Miscellaneous Christian            7,890      .05%

        Other Faiths                         362      .00%

        Without Confession               845,638     5.80%

        Unknown                            1,628      .01%
NOTE: Under the Austrian regime public service and teaching were open only to church members. Prior to 1918 only 13,000 of the population dared register themselves as without confession.

With independence in 1918, a movement "away from Rome" reached its crest in 1930 and 845,000 people registered as without confession.

The Czechoslovak Church was founded by a strong movement to reform certain practices and to become independent of Rome, but continuing the catholic form of rights and services.

All numbers are based on the 1930 census of the Czecho-Slovak Republic.

The boundaries of the country in 1930 were not the same as what we today know as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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