Talk:Demographic history of Novi Sad

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"According to the 1910 census, the city had 33,590 inhabitants, of which 13,343 (39.72%) most frequently spoke Hungarian language, 11,594 (34.52%) Serbian language, 5,918 (17.62%) German language, 1,453 (4.33%) Slovak language, etc. [9] It is not certain whether Hungarians or Serbs were largest ethnic group in the city in this time, since 1910 census is considered partially inaccurate by most historians because this census did not recorded the population by ethnic origin or mother tongue, but by the "most frequently spoken language", [10] thus the census results overstated the number of Hungarian speakers, since this was official language at the time and many non-Hungarian native speakers stated that they most frequently speak Hungarian language in everyday communication."

Whoever wrote this, doesn't understand why Kingdom of Hungary was so strong. The main strenght came from the diversity. Most people living there who never had any "blood" connection to Hungarians were proud Hungarians (ie. Kossuth and Petofi, also Karoly Kos, Festetich, Grassalkovich, etc.) Today, influenced by nationalism, we don't understand this. Abdulka 16:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)