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In the Holy Roman Empire, the collective term free and imperial cities (German: Freie und Reichsstädte), briefly worded free imperial city (Freie Reichsstadt, Latin: urbs imperialis libera), was used from the fifteenth century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
Mühlhausen is one of the most important Free imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire, controlling an area of approximately 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi) and 19 regional villages. Due to its long-distance trade, Mühlhausen is prosperous and influential with a population of 10,000.
The Free and Imperial City of Mühlhausen was a territory ( Free and Imperial City) of the Holy Roman Empire with the city of Mühlhausen as its center, whose independence had taken place during the 13th century (obtaining imperial freedom in
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In the mid-13th century, it became a Freie Reichsstadt, an independent and republican self-ruled member of the Holy Roman Empire, controlling an area of approximately 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi) and 19 regional villages. Due to its long-distance trade, Mühlhausen was prosperous and influential with a population of 10,000 around 1500.
The Free Imperial City of Ulm was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube, in a fertile plain at the foot of the Swabian Jura. History. Ulm is mentioned as a demesne in 854, and under the Carolingian dynasty it was the scene of several assemblies.
Created a free imperial city after 1256, it joined the Hanseatic League about 1420. After the Reformation Mühlhausen became a centre of the people’s reform movement, and during the Peasants’ War (1524–25) against the feudal princes it was associated with the peasant leader Thomas Müntzer , who was executed there after the Battle of ...
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