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Free City (other)
Free city may refer to: Historical places * Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras *City-state, an independent sovereign city * 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 (Napoleonic), established by Napoleon, and Free City of Danzig, created after World War I, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free City (antiquity)
A free city (; ) was a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras. The status was given by the king or emperor, who nevertheless supervised the city's affairs through his or (Greek: ''epimeletes'') respectively. Several autonomous cities had also the right to issue civic coinage bearing the name of the city. History Examples of free cities include Amphipolis, which after 357 BC remained permanently a free and autonomous city inside the Macedonian kingdom; and probably also Cassandreia and Philippi. Under Seleucid rule, numerous cities enjoyed autonomy and issued coins; some of them, like Seleucia and Tarsus continued to be free cities, even after the Roman conquest by Pompey. Nicopolis was also constituted a free city by Augustus, its founder. Thessalonica after the battle of Philippi, was made a free city in 42 BC, when it had sided with the victors. Athens, a free city with its own laws, appealed to Hadrian to devise new laws which he modelled o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free City (album)
''Free City'' is the only studio album by hip-hop group St. Lunatics. It was released on June 5, 2001, almost a full year after the release of group member Nelly's debut, ''Country Grammar''. The album was a commercial success as it debuted at number 3 on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 196,000 copies sold in its first week. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA a month later. The title ''Free City'' came from their fifth member City Spud who was incarcerated at the time of release. Track listing #"Just for You (The Introductory Poem)" (feat. Amber Tabares) (1:26) #"S.T.L." (5:21) (Kyjuan, Ali, Murphy Lee, Nelly) #"Okay" (3:50) (Ali, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan) #"Summer in the City" (4:37) (Nelly, Kyjuan, Murphy Lee, Ali) #"Mad Baby Daddy (Skit), Part 1" (1:40) #"Boom D Boom" (3:27) (Ali) #"Midwest Swing" (4:40) (Nelly, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan, Ali) #"Show 'Em What They Won" (4:31) (Ali, Nelly, Kyjuan, Murphy Lee) #"Let Me in Now" (4:42) (Nelly, Ali, Murphy Lee, Kyjuan) #"Diz Iz Da Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Economic Zone
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increased investment, job creation and effective administration. To encourage businesses to set up in the zone, financial policies are introduced. These policies typically encompass investing, taxation, trading, quotas, customs and labour regulations. Additionally, companies may be offered tax holidays, where upon establishing themselves in a zone, they are granted a period of lower taxation. The creation of special economic zones by the host country may be motivated by the desire to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). The benefits a company gains by being in a special economic zone may mean that it can produce and trade goods at a lower price, aimed at being globally competitive. In some countries, the zones have been criticized for bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Free City
A royal free city, or free royal city (Latin: ''libera regia civitas''), was the official term for the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary from the late 12th centuryBácskai Vera – Nagy Lajos: Piackörzetek, piacközpontok és városok Magyarországon 1828-ban. Budapest, 1984. to the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The cities were granted certain privileges by the King of Hungary to prevent their control by the Hungarian nobility, hence "royal", and exercised some self-government in relation to their internal affairs and so were "free". From the late 14th century, the elected envoys of the royal free cities participated in the sessions of the Diet of Hungary, Hungarian Diet and so they became part of the legislature. This list also includes cities in the Kingdom of Croatia (other), Kingdom of Croatia and the Banate of Bosnia, which were part of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown. The term "royal free city" in the kingdom's languages is as follows: * * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent City
An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a province). Historical precursors In the Holy Roman Empire, and to a degree in its successor states the German Confederation and the German Empire, so-called " free imperial cities" (nominative singular ''freie Reichsstadt'', nominative plural ''freie Reichsstädte'') held the legal status of imperial immediacy, according to which they were not subinfeudated to any vassal ruler and were instead subject to the authority of the Emperor alone. Examples included Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck, along with others that gained and/or lost the privileges of immediacy over the course of the Empire's history. National capitals A number of countries have made their national capitals into separate entities. Federal capitals In countries with a federal structure, the federal capital is often separate from other jurisdictions in the country, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freetown (other)
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone. Freetown may also refer to: Places *Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda * Freetown, Bahamas *Freetown (Belize House constituency), in the Belize District of Belize United States *Freetown, Alabama *Freetown, Indiana *In Louisiana: ** Freetown-Port Rico Historic District in the city of Lafayette ** Informal name for McDonoghville, a community spanning the neighborhoods of Algiers and Gretna ** A rural area in St. Rose, Louisiana, also known as Elkinsville ** A rural area on the western bank of the Mississippi River, midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge ** A rural area in St. Mary Parish, south of Glencoe *Freetown, Maryland, now Atholton *Freetown, Massachusetts ** Freetown station *Freetown, New York * Freetown (East Hampton), New York *Freetown, Virginia Other uses * ''Freetown'' (film), a 2015 American film *Freetown, a fictional town in the 2021 streaming series '' Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett'' See also * Free city (disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essos
The fictional world in which the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World. Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in a large political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms. Those kingdoms are spread across nine regions: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale, the Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach, the Crownlands, and Dorne. A massive wall of ice and old magic separates the Seven Kingdoms from the largely unmapped area to the north. The vast continent of Essos is located east of Westeros, across the Narrow Sea. The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the Free Cities, a collection of nine independent city-states along the western edge of Essos. The lands along the southern coastline of Essos are called the Lands of the Summer Sea and include Slaver's Bay and the ruins of Valyria. The latter is the former home of the ances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Guy
''Free Guy'' is a 2021 American action comedy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi. It tells the story of a bank teller who discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game who then partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company's CEO stole the source code of the player's game. Lieberman began writing the script in 2016, which was acquired by 20th Century Fox shortly after. Levy passed on the script but reconsidered after Hugh Jackman introduced him to Reynolds, resulting in him leaving the film adaptation of the ''Uncharted'' video game he had been developing. The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney made ''Free Guy'' one of the first films produced by the studio to continue production under Disney's ownership. Filming took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free City Of Greyhawk
The Free City of Greyhawk, also known as Greyhawk City and the "Gem of the Flanaess", is a fictional city-state in the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy roleplaying game. Since the setting was originally published in a folio and then again in a boxed set that were both titled World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting, ''World of Greyhawk'', the word "Greyhawk" is often used to describe the entire campaign world setting, although the proper name for that part of the world is the Flanaess. Sometimes the lands controlled by the Free City are also referred to as Greyhawk, though the proper term for the region is the Domain of Greyhawk. Early development In 1972, after seeing a demonstration of Dave Arneson's Blackmoor (campaign setting), Castle Blackmoor game, game designer Gary Gygax agreed with Arneson to co-develop a set of rules for a game that would eventually become known as Dungeons & Dragons. Gygax liked the idea of a castle and dungeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free City Of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (; ) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. The polity was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Article 100 (Section XI of Part III) of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I. Although predominantly Germans, German-populated, the territory was bound by the imposed union with Poland covering foreign policy, defence, customs union, customs, railways and post, but remained distinct from both the post-war Weimar Republic, Weimar Republic and the newly independent Second Polish Republic, Polish Republic. In addition, Poland was given certain rights pertaining to port facilities in the city. In the 1920 Free City of Danzig Constituent Assembly election, 1920 Constituent Assembly election, the Polish Party received over 6% of the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
