title: Free city
text: # Free city
  
  Free city may refer to:
  
  ## Historical places
  
  * Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras
  * Free imperial city, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
     * Free City of Augsburg, for over 500 years in what is now Germany
     * Free City of Besançon, in what is now eastern France
     * Free City of Bremen, from 1646 to 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
     * Free City of Frankfurt, for almost five centuries until 1866, in what is now Germany
     * Free City of Hamburg, until 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
     * Free City of Lübeck, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany
  * Free City of Cracow, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland
  * Free City of Danzig and Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Free City (album), a 2001 album by the St. Lunatics
  * Free City of Greyhawk, a fictional city-state
  * Free City, a fictional MMO game in the 2021 film Free Guy
  