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City map of Frankfurt in 1840. The Free City of Frankfurt was a state of its own. The state back then widely correlated to the borders of the city today. It spread on both riversides of the Main and remained mostly unchanged since the 15th century.
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Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for...
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Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (German: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt...
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Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, as a site of Imperial coronations; it lost its sovereignty upon the collapse of the empire in 1806, regained it in 1815 and then lost it again in 1866, when it was annexed (though neutral) by the ...
The free imperial cities in the 18th century. 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 15th century to denote a self-ruling city that had a certain amount of autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (German: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt ʔam ˈmaɪn] (listen); Hessian: Frangford am Maa, lit. " Frank ford on the [a] Main "), is one of the biggest cities in Germany. The city of Frankfurt has a population of 700,000.
In 1815, Frankfurt became a free city and the seat of the federal government. In 1848, the March revolution broke out in the German states. As a symbol of reconciliation, the Franco-Prussian war was officially ended in 1871 with the Peace of Frankfurt.
English: For almost five centuries, the German city of Frankfurt am Main was a city-state within two major Germanic federations: The Holy Roman Empire as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt (German: Freie Reichsstadt Frankfurt) (until 1806) and the German Confederation as the Free City of Frankfurt (Freie Stadt Frankfurt) (1815–66)
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Oct 4, 2024 · Frankfurt am Main was a free imperial city from 1372 until 1806, when Napoleon I made it the seat of government for the prince primate of the Confederation of the Rhine. In 1810 the city became the capital of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, created by Napoleon.
