| 释义 |
Definition of free city in English: free citynoun historical 1A city that constitutes an independent state; a city state. Thessalonica became a free city of the Roman Republic Example sentencesExamples - The guilds gained control of the city council in 1396, and in 1475 Cologne became an imperial free city.
- In the Tokugawa Period free cities, such as Sakai, grew in importance and were able to resist attempts to impose trade restrictions on them.
- As a result all the imperial knights and almost all the ecclesiastical princes and free cities lost their sovereign rights.
- A Syrian Greek, he settled in Rhodes, a prosperous free city with already a reputation for philosophy and science.
- In the early 16th century there were 65 imperial cities (free cities) which were not controlled by a prince.
- 1.1 A semi-autonomous city under the authority of an international body.
before the war, the free city of Danzig had a mostly German population Example sentencesExamples - The free city option follows in the tradition of Hong Kong and West Berlin where refugees poured in and found safe haven, even prosperity.
- Khrushchev demanded the removal of the Western powers from Berlin, and the creation of an independent free city of West Berlin.
- Once a free city under the Protection of the League of Nations, the Danzig of yore lives on in the novels of Gunter Grass.
- I base this logic of free cities on the Danzig example of 1919 to 1939, in West Prussia.
- Byrnes and Bevin would have none of that either, insisting that the projected "free city" of Trieste must have a frontier with Italy.
- Italy was obliged to cede most of the Istrian peninsula; Trieste became a free city, a status it retained until 1954.
- Danzig was established as a free city under the League of Nations.
- Danzig was made a free city and the district of Bialystok was ceded to Russia.
- For two years Harding ruled with popular acclaim over what became the free city of Trieste.
|