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    Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs...
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    Free Imperial City of Aachen, also known in English by its French name of Aix-la-Chapelle and today known simply as Aachen, was a Free Imperial City and...
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    The Free Imperial City of Ulm was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube, in a fertile plain at the...
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    The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German: Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg) was a free imperial city – independent city-state – within the Holy Roman Empire...
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  • The Free Imperial City of Besançon was a self-governing free imperial city that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Besançon. From 1184...
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    The Imperial Free City of Trieste and its Territory (German: Reichsunmittelbare Stadt Triest und ihr Gebiet, Italian: Città Imperiale di Trieste e Dintorni)...
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    The Free Imperial City of Kempten was a Free Imperial City in the Swabian Circle. In 1213, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots of Kempten...
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    centuries, the German city of Frankfurt was a city-state within two major Germanic entities: The Holy Roman Empire as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt (German:...
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    There were 51 Free Imperial Cities in the Holy Roman Empire as of 1792. They are listed here with their official confessional status confirmed by the Peace...
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    in a black and white field. Some free imperial cities took to displaying symbols of the empire, especially the Imperial eagle, as part of their flags or...
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    century, Cologne was able to shake off archiepiscopal rule and, as a Free Imperial City, enabled the burgher ruling class to achieve great splendor, visibly...
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  • Free city may refer to: Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras City-state, an independent sovereign...
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    Emperor Frederick II declared the city of Lübeck to be a Free Imperial City. Lübeck law was the constitution of the city's municipal form of government developed...
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  • Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular principalities, and individuals such as the Imperial...
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    far-reaching privileges from King Henry IV as early as 1074, the city became an imperial free city. The bishops resided at Ladenburg and only had jurisdiction...
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    oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum and named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276...
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  • Free Imperial City of Besançon (1184–1654)  Free Imperial City of Hamburg (1189–1806;) Free Imperial City of Konstanz (1192–1548) Free Imperial City of...
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    properties that lay outside of the city of St. Gallen and banned him from the Confederation. Ulrich then appealed to the imperial court (as did Schwendiner, who...
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    1500. It was the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt, today's capital, and Mühlhausen, the other free imperial city in the land. Nordhausen was...
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    centers in the state of Hesse. A former free imperial city, it gained much of its fame as the seat of the Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht) of...
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  • the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras. The status was given by the king or emperor, who nevertheless supervised the city's affairs through his epistates...
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    Hamburg (redirect from Free City of Hamburg)
    Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871 unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before...
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    ecclesiastical states took place concurrently with the mediatisation of free imperial cities and other secular states. The mass mediatisation and secularisation...
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    abbots, etc.) and the free imperial cities, that also enjoyed Imperial immediacy. However, unlike all of those, the Imperial knights did not possess...
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    Giengen (category Free imperial cities)
    [ˈɡɪŋən] ; full name: Giengen an der Brenz; Swabian: Gẽänge) is a former Free Imperial City in eastern Baden-Württemberg near the border with Bavaria in southern...
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  • F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Free Imperial Cities, Imperial abbeys, Imperial Knights, Imperial Villages This is a list of states in the Holy...
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    been since 1646 (after earlier privileges of autonomy of 1186) the Free Imperial City of Bremen was not mediatised. Rather than being incorporated into...
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    The Free City of Besançon was a self-governing free city surrounded by Franche-Comté. After losing its status as a free imperial city within the Holy...
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    largest city, Besançon, was granted the status of free imperial city. The rest of the county was given imperial immediacy (making it an imperial county)...
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    By 1180 the city had expanded greatly, and by 1250 had seen an increase in privileges in addition to economic growth. A free imperial city under the Hohenstaufen...
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