#1; Kosinski, Leszek, Antoni, "Changes in the Ethnic Structure in Countries of East Central Europe", apud Ludanyi, Andrew, op. cit. p. 311

#2; Pearson, Raymond, "The Geopolitics of People Power: The Pursuit of the Nation-State in East Central Europe", in Journal of international Affairs, Winter 1992, p. 370-379. But, according to the Dictionary of Contemporary English empire is "a group of countries under one central government, often ruled by an emperor". In this perspective, the term "mini-empire" used by R. Pearson to describe the many of Eastern European states is by no means suitable.

#3; Livezeanu, Irina, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania. Regionalism, Nation Buiding, Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930, Cornell University Press, 1995, p. 71

#4; idem, pp 7, 11 apud Ludanyyi, op.cit. , p. 311

#5; Source: Shoup, Paul, The East European ans Soviet Data Handbook, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 1981, p. 139, apud Trond Gilberg, op. cit., p. 166

#6; Shafir, op. cit., p. 167

#7; Ludanyi, op. cit., p. 311