State People in early Poland?

In early Poland there were a people know as the state people. Who are they?

Never heard of them. "State people" doesn't tell me much. It sounds like it could be a tribe, or a profession, or a social position...

Is that a translation of a Polish term or a proper noun?

I vaguely recall that the Poles arose from various, related West Slavic tribes, one of which called themselves Polanie. Incidentally, there may have been an East Slavic tribe who went by the same name, and they became the Ukrainians. But my memory is fuzzy, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of this information. All I know is that at least in the tribal context, "state people" rings no bells.

Care to provide some more information?

KCharlie,

I thought maybe convicts, or nobility.

How about shedding some light on the context of state people, huh???

Where did you hear about these people?

I used google translate to translate from english to polish and back to english, which gave me "people state". I wonder if the OP is referring to the commonwealth?

I don't know. In English, the adjective comes before the noun. In Spanish, it comes after the noun. In Polish, both word orders are common. I wouldn't rely too much on machine translation.

Pawian,

Location I'm thinking of is Podlachia.

The only thing that comes to my mind is that peasants in past Poland could belong to the king, church or landlord. If they belonged to king, they were called royal subjects. Not far from state people.

Never a good idea to rely on Google Translate etc. what was the phrase you translated into Polish then back to English.