 The numerous refugees (including even more from Romania) necessitated the construction of new housing projects in Budapest (Mária-Valéria telep, Pongrácz-telep), which gave shelter to refugees numbering at least in the tens of thousands.At the beginning of the school year 1918–19, Slovakia had 3,642 elementary schools.Only 141 schools taught in the Slovak language, 186 in Slovak and Hungarian and 3,298 in Hungarian.