Free city may refer to:
Historical places
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Free city (antiquity) A free city ( la, civitas libera, urbs liberae condicionis; el, ) was a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras. The status was given by the king or emperor, who nevertheless supervised the city's affairs through his ''ep ...
a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras
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Free imperial city
In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (german: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (', la, urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that ...
, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
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Free City of Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and regional ...
, for over 500 years in what is now Germany
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Free City of Besançon
The Free City of Besançon was a self-governing free city surrounded by Franche-Comté.
After losing its status as a free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire in 1654, the City of Besançon refused to recognise the sovereignty of a new prote ...
, in what is now eastern France
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Free City of Bremen
Bremen (), officially the Free Hanseatic League#Lists of former Hansa cities, Hanseatic City of Bremen (german: Freie Hansestadt Bremen; nds, Free Hansestadt Bremen), is the smallest and least populous of States of Germany, Germany's 16 states. ...
, from 1646 to 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
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Free City of Frankfurt
For almost five centuries, the German city of Frankfurt was a city-state within two major Germanic entities:
*The Holy Roman Empire as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt () (until 1806)
*The German Confederation as the Free City of Frankfurt ...
, for almost five centuries until 1866, in what is now Germany
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Free City of Hamburg
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, until 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
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Free City of Lübeck
The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck) was a city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
History
Imperial Free City and the Hanseatic Le ...
, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany
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Free City of Cracow
The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow with its Territory, more commonly known as the Free City of Cracow, and the Republic of Cracow, was a city republic created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which included the Polish ...
, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland
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Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (german: Freie Stadt Danzig; pl, Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; csb, Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a city-state under the protection of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gda ...
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Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)
The Free City of Danzig ( French: ''Ville libre de Dantzig''; German: ''Freie Stadt Danzig''; Polish: ''Wolne Miasto Gdańsk''), sometimes referred to as the Republic of Danzig ( French: ''République de Dantzig''; German: ''Republik Danzig''), w ...
, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland
Other uses
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''Free City'' (album), a 2001 album by the St. Lunatics
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Free City of Greyhawk
The Free City of Greyhawk, also known as Greyhawk City and the "Gem of the Flanaess," is a fictional city-state in the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Since the setting was original ...
, a fictional city-state
* ''Free City'', a fictional MMO game in the 2021 film ''
Free Guy
''Free Guy'' is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkars ...
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See also
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Free state (disambiguation)
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Freetown (disambiguation)
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone.
Freetown may also refer to:
Places
*Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda
* Freetown, Bahamas
*Freetown (Belize House constituency), in the Belize District of Belize
United States
* Freetown, Alabama
* Freetown, ...
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City-state
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. They have existed in many parts of the world since the dawn of history, including cities such as ...
, a sovereign microstate that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories
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Independent city
An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a province).
Historical precursors
In the Holy Roman Empire, and to a degree in its successor states ...
, a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity
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Royal free city
Royal free city or free royal city (Latin: libera regia civitas) was the official term for the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary from the late 12th centuryBácskai Vera – Nagy Lajos: Piackörzetek, piacközpontok és városok Magy ...
, in the Kingdom of Hungary
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Special economic zone
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increas ...
, an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country
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Pact of Free Cities, 2019 pact between Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest
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