Free city may refer to:

Historical places

• Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras
• City-state, an independent sovereign city
• Free imperial city, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
  • Free City of Augsburg, for over 500 years in what is now Germany
  • Free City of Besançon, in what is now eastern France
  • Free City of Bremen, from 1646 to 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
  • Free City of Frankfurt, for almost five centuries until 1866, in what is now Germany
  • Free City of Hamburg, until 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
  • Free City of Lübeck, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany
• Free City of Cracow, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland
• Free City of Danzig and Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland

Other uses

• Free City (album), a 2001 album by the St. Lunatics
• Free City of Greyhawk, a fictional city-state
• Free City, a fictional MMO game in the 2021 film Free Guy

See also

• de:Freie Stadt, literally "free city", discusses the term it its generality
• Free state (disambiguation)
• Freetown (disambiguation)
• Independent city, a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity
• Royal free city, in the Kingdom of Hungary
• Special economic zone, an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country
  • Free economic zone, a type of special economic zone
• Pact of Free Cities, 2019 pact between Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest

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