free imperial city

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet. historical
    — 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.).

词形变化

词源

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