English Explanatory Dictionary

free imperial city

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.

Word forms

free imperial city free imperial cities free and imperial city

Etymology

A calque of German Freie Reichsstadt (short singular form of Freie und Reichsstädte) or Latin urbs imperialis libera.

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