LocalityPopulationGermansPoles
Kreuzburg51,90624,36324,487
Rosenberg52,3418,58642,234
Oppeln (city)33,90727,1285,371
Oppeln (district)117,90623,74089,323
Gross-Strehlitz73,38312,61658,102
Lublinitz50,3887,38439,969
Gleiwitz (city)66,98149,5439,843
Tost-Gleiwitz80,51516,40861,509
Tarnowitz77,58320,96951,859
Beuthen (city)67,71841,07122,401
Königshütte (city)72,64139,27624,687
Beuthen-Land195,84459,308123,016
Hindenburg139,81063,87581,567
Kattowitz (city)43,17336,8915,766
Kattowitz (district)216,80765,763140,592
Pless122,89716,464105,744
Rybnik131,63024,872102,430
Ratibor (city)38,42422,91411,525
Ratibor (district)118,92313,31656,765
Kosel75,67316,43356,794
Leobschütz82,63569,9015,178
Neustadt97,53751,48943,787
Falkenberg37,52633,2863,815
Neisse (city)25,93824,735955
Neisse (district)75,28574,125797
Grottkau40,61039,589825

FOOTNOTES:

[97] L. Niederle: La race slave, Paris, 1911, pp. 71-74. A digest in English of his conclusions will be found in Ann. Rept. Smiths. Inst., 1910, Washington, 1911, pp. 599-612.

[98] J. Talko-Hryncewicz: Les Polonais du royaume de Pologne d’après les données anthropologiques recueillies jusqu’à présent, Bull. Int. Acad. Sc. Cracovie, Classe des Sc. Math. et Nat. Bull. Sc. Nat., June 1912, pp. 574-582.

[99] Southern Poland was overrun by Mongolians during their third invasion of Europe. The Asiatics were attacked near Szydlow on March 18, 1241, by an army of Polish noblemen recruited from Sandomir and Cracow. The defeat of the Christians enabled the invaders to plunder the latter city, besides opening the way for incursions farther north in the course of which they penetrated into Silesia by way of Ratibor and marched toward Breslau. Near Liegnitz an army of 30,000 Europeans was defeated on April 9th of the same year. These disasters were invariably followed by a westerly spread of the Tatar scourge. Traces of its passage can still be detected among the Poles.

[100] The Poles constitute the majority of the population in many cities of eastern or Russian Galicia. In Niederle’s list Bobrka, Muszyna, Sanok, Lisko, Sambor, Peremysl, Rawaruska, Belz, Zolkiew, Grodek, Ceshanow, Stryj, Kalusz, Stanislawoff, Kolomya, Tarnopol, Husiatyn, Buczacz, Sokal and Trembowla are credited with over 50 per cent Poles in their population. The predominance of German in the cities of Biala, Sczerzec, Dolina, Bolechow, Nadworna, Kossow, Kuty, Zablotow and Brody is attributed by the same authority to the Jewish element present.

[101] E. Reclus: Géogr. Univ., Vol. 3, Europe Centrale, Paris, 1878, p. 396.

[102] E. Romer: Esquisse climatique de l’ancienne Pologne, Bul. de la Soc. Vaud. des Sc. Nat., 5e Sér., Vol. 46, June, 1910, p. 231.

[103] J. Zemrich: Deutsche und Slaven in den österreichischen Südetenländern, Deutsche Erde, Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 1-4.

[104] Limite des civilisations dans les Beskides occidentaux, Ann. de Géogr., Vol. 17, 1908, Feb. 15, pp. 130-132. Cf. also E. Hanslik: Kulturgrenze und Kulturzyklus in den polnischen Westbeskiden, Pet. Mitt., Ergänzungsheft No. 158, 1907.