📚 noun • entry_id 60694
free imperial city
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ciudad imperial libre
A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
A free imperial city held the status of Imperial immediacy, and was thus subordinate only to the Holy Roman Emperor, whereas a territorial city or town (Landstadt) was subordinate…
The city-states of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire had their origins as free imperial cities, a term coined in the late eleventh century.
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