Free city

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Free city may refer to:

Historical places

  • Free city (antiquity)
    a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras
  • City-state, an independent sovereign city
  • Free imperial city, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
    • Free City of Augsburg
      , for over 500 years in what is now Germany
    • Free City of Besançon, in what is now eastern France
    • Free City of Bremen
      , from 1646 to 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
    • Free City of Frankfurt, for almost five centuries until 1866, in what is now Germany
    • Free City of Hamburg
      , until 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
    • Free City of Lübeck, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany
  • Free City of Cracow, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland
  • Free City of Danzig and Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland

Other uses

See also