The basic ethnic and religious data are presented below
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Total population |
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Ethnic Slovaks |
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Ethnic Hungarians |
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Ethnic Romas (Gypsies) |
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Ethnic Czechs |
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Ethnic Rusyns |
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Ethnic Ukrainians |
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Roman Catholics |
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Lutherans |
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Greek Catholics |
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Calvinists |
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Orthodox |
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Jehovah witness |
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Atheists |
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Unspecified (people who left the field blank) |
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There are two surprises:
What I find interesting is that the number of citizens claiming Rusyn ancestry is up 42% from 1991. While those claiming to be Ukrainian is down 15%. It appears that the "reawakening of the Rusyn Spirit" is occurring in Slovakia. It saddens me that I have relatives in the U.S. who, when I show them the facts, still deny their Rusyn heritage - claiming to be Slovak