Free City

Free city may refer to:

  • City-state, region controlled exclusively by a sovereign city
  • Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras
  • Free City a special economic zone with a distinct legal structure.
  • Free City (album), album by the St. Lunatics
  • Free City of Danzig, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland
  • Free Imperial City, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
  • Royal free city, or free royal city, a term for a self-governed city in the Kingdom of Hungary

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or city:

    “It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)