↑ Norman Davies, Europe: A History, Pimlico 1997, p. 554: Poland-Lithuania was another country which experienced its 'Golden Age' during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The realm of the last Jagiellons was absolutely the largest state in Europe
1 2 Bertram Benedict (1919). A history of the great war. Bureau of national literature, inc. tr. 21. Truy cập ngày 13 tháng 8 năm 2011.
↑ John Markoff describes the advent of modern codified national constitutions as one of the milestones of democracy, and states that "The first European country to follow the U.S. example was Poland in 1791." John Markoff, Waves of Democracy, 1996, ISBN 0-8039-9019-7, p.121.
↑ Tỉ như nó là tên của thực thể này trong các hòa ước sau: Lưu trữ 2013-11-10 tại Wayback Machine,
↑ Although the terms Rzeczpospolita (Commonwealth/Republic) and Oba Narody (Two/Both Nations) were widespread in the period, and were used in the combined form for the first time only in 1967 in Paweł Jasienica's book thus entitled.
↑ Aleksander Gella, Development of Class Structure in Eastern Europe: Poland and Her Southern Neighbors, SUNY Press, 1998, ISBN0-88706-833-2, Google Print, p13