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The territory in question, which coincides with the Italian province of
Bolzano, has an area of 2,735 square miles and a total population (1936)
of 278,000. In the census of 1921 ( the last cnesus in which the
inhabitants were listed according to language), out of a total
population of 244,000 there were 189,000 Germans and 34,000 Italians or
Ladin-speaking inhabitants. Many Germans, apparentlly about 100,000,
were moved to Germany after an Italian-German agreement and plebiscite
in 1939. Since the surrender of Italy, however, German administration
has been established in this territory, which is probably still
predominantly German in population.
27. KLAGENFURT AREA.--Yugoslavia claims the Klagenfurt basin, roughly to
the boundary of Styria and including the cities of Villach, Volkermarkt,
and Klagenfurt. This area remained under Austria sovreignty in 1920
after a plebiscite in the southern portion resulted favorably for
Austria.
The territory involved has an area of about 1,000 square miles and a
total population of some 250,000, of whom only 27,000, according to
the Austrian census of 1934, are Slovenes.
28. YUGOSLAV-HUNGARIAN BORDERLANDS, including Prekomurje, Medjumurje,
Baranja, Bachka and the Yugoslav Banat. These areas were ceded to
Yugoslavia by Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon, June 4, 1920. Since the
defeat of Yugoslavia in 1941 all but the Banat have been occupied by
Hungarian forces. The Banat is now a part of the puppet state of Serbia
and is administered by the local German minority.
These districts have an area of 7,987 square miles and a total poulation
of approximately 1,535,000 persons. According to the census of 1921,
there were 670,000 Serbo-Croats, 393,000 Magyars, 321,000 Germans and
68,000 Rumanians in this territory.
29. RAAB SALIENT.--Yugoslavia has claimed on ethnic grounds a small area
of about 50 square miles on the upper Raab River where Hungarian
territory forms a salient between Yugoslavia and Austria. The
population is not more than a few thousand.
30. HUNGARIAN-CZECHOSLOVAK FRONTIER ZONE.-- This area was ceded by
Hungary to Czechoslovakia in the Treaty of Trianon, June 4, 1920. Some
of the parts indicated were