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:

    “There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 3:17-19.

    “The city is all right. To live in one
    Is to be civilized, stay up and read
    Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
    By waiting up instead of getting up.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)