Germany of ecclesiastical lands and of free cities, with the result that 112 formerly independent states lying east of the Rhine were wiped out of existence and nearly one hundred others on the west bank were added to France.
Through the Crusades serfs were emancipated by assuming the cross; by being made day labourers in the absence of free men; and by passing into the hands of free cities, the Church, or the king.
The rise of free cities tended to associate social equality with municipal liberty.
The twelfth century saw an important development for the Swiss national character when Berne and other "Free Cities" were founded by Bertold V.
These "Free Cities" acted as a counterpoise to the growing power of the Swiss feudal nobles of the country districts, and helped much to shape the country towards its future of a Federal Republic.
The age of free cities is past; in some lands the mere high-handed robbery of the stranger has wiped them out, as where the fetters of the meanest of oppressors still clank over enslaved Ragusa.
While Italy then, the special land of free cities, was slow in rising to national unity, the neighbouring land in which free cities showed themselves only for a moment has never reached national unity at all.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free cities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
