free imperial city
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
Example Sentences
- "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 to a territorial prince – either an ecclesiastical lord (prince-bishop or prince-abbot) or a secular prince (duke (Herzog), margrave, count (Graf), etc.)."
- "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."
- "Verdun was an ancient bishopric and a free imperial city, which France conquered in 1552 (together with Metz and Toul) and made into a fortress to protect its eastern borders."
- "Like many free imperial cities, Augsburg in the early Middle Ages was an Episcopal city."
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Inflected Forms
free imperial cities (plural)
free and imperial city (alternative)