Free city of Empire
A free city of empire ( Freie Reichsstadt ) indicates under the Saint Germanic Roman Empire, until in 1806, a Ville directly subordinated to the Empereur and not to a Land .
List free cities of Empire
The rights of the free cities could be removed or given and the number of these cities thus varied. It is in 1521 that the free cities were most numerous, huitante-trois having been listed with the Diète of Worms. There remained still 51 free cities into 1800 within the Saint Germanic Roman Empire.
Until the Treated of Westphalia in 1648, the towns of Metz, Toul and Verdun were also free cities. Until the peace of Nimègues, in 1679, Besancon was also a free city, just like the Décapole:
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