page_title: Békés County (former)
section_title: 1910
hierarchical_section_title: Békés County (former) / Demographics / 1910
caption_attribution_description: English: Ethnic map of the county (with data of the 1910 census). Key: red - Hungarians; light green - Slovaks; pink - Germans; dark green - Romanians. 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: Békés was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was smaller than that of present Békés county, is now in southeastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Gyula.
context_section_description: In 1910, the county had a population of 298,710 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
  Total:
  Hungarian: 219,261 (73,4%)
  Slovak: 66,770 (22,4%)
  Romanian: 6,125 (2,1%)
  German: 6,048 (2,0%)
  Ruthenian: 4 (0,0%)
  Croatian: 17 (0,0%)
  Serbian: 76 (0,0%)
  Other or unknown: 409 (0,1%)
  According to the census of 1910, the county was composed of the following religious communities:
  Total:
  Lutheran: 105,724 (35,4%)
  Calvinist: 98,596 (33,0%)
  Roman Catholic: 75,738 (25,4%)
  Greek Orthodox: 8,374 (2,8%)
  Jewish: 7,444 (2,5%)
  Unitarian: 893 (0,3%)
  Greek Catholic: 748 (0,2%)
  Other or unknown: 1,193 (0,4%)
caption: Ethnic map of the county with data of the 1910 census (see the key in the description).
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