page_title: Szepes County
section_title: 1910
hierarchical_section_title: Szepes County / Demographics / 1910
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: light green - Slovaks; pink - Germans; red - Hungarians; violet - Ruthenians; black - Roma; orange - Polish. Coloured dots in plain rectangles imply the presence of smaller minority populations (generally more than 100 people or 10%). Multicoloured rectangles imply cities and villages with multi-ethnic populations with the order of the stripes following the ethnic composition of the settlement.
context_page_description: Szepes was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, called Scepusium before the late 19th century. Its territory today lies in northeastern Slovakia, with a very small area in southeastern Poland.
context_section_description: In 1910, the county had a population of 172,867 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Slovak: 97,077 (56.2%)
  German: 38,434 (22.2%)
  Hungarian: 18,658 (10.8%)
  Ruthenian: 12,327 (7.1%)
  Romanian: 532 (0.3%)
  Serbian: 145 (0.1%)
  Croatian: 65 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 5,629 (3.3%)
  According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Roman Catholic: 117,497 (68.0%)
  Lutheran: 26,459 (15.3%)
  Greek Catholic: 19,638 (11.4%)
  Jewish: 7,475 (4.3%)
  Calvinist: 1,391 (0.8%)
  Greek Orthodox: 326 (0.2%)
  Unitarian: 13 (0.0%)
  Other or unknown: 68 (0.0%)
caption: Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
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