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 free man is a warrior.—How is freedom measured among individuals, among peoples? According to the resistance that must be overcome, according to the trouble it takes to stay on top. The highest type of free man must be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps away from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Och, Dublin City, there is no doubtin’,
Bates every city upon the say;
‘Tis there you’ll see O’Connell spoutin’,
An’ Lady Morgan makin’ tay;
For ‘tis the capital of the finest nation,
Wid charmin’ pisintry on a fruitful sod,
Fightin’ like divils for conciliation
An’ hatin’ each other for the love of God.”
—Charles James Lever (1809–1872)