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:
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious, a miser’s glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
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