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:

    “A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “I come from the city of Boston,
    The home of the bean and the cod,”
    —John Collins Bossidy (1860–1928)