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free citynoun1chiefly historical A city that constitutes an independent state; a city state: Thessalonica became a free city of the Roman Republic...- In the early 16th century there were 65 imperial cities (free cities) which were not controlled by a prince.
- As a result all the imperial knights and almost all the ecclesiastical princes and free cities lost their sovereign rights.
- The guilds gained control of the city council in 1396, and in 1475 Cologne became an imperial free city.
1.1A semi-autonomous city under the authority of an international body: before the war, the free city of Danzig had a mostly German population...- Danzig was established as a free city under the League of Nations.
- Khrushchev demanded the removal of the Western powers from Berlin, and the creation of an independent free city of West Berlin.
- Italy was obliged to cede most of the Istrian peninsula; Trieste became a free city, a status it retained until 1954.
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