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:
“... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power over wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet ...”
—Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
“There was never a revolution to equal it, and never a city more glorious than Petrograd, and for all that period of my life I lived another and braved the ice of winter and the summer flies in Vyborg while across my adopted country of the past, winds of the revolution blew their flame, and all of us suffered hunger while we drank at the wine of equality.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)