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Free City of Frankfurt - Wikipedia. Coordinates: 50°6′37″N 8°40′56″E. Frankfurt was a major city of the Holy Roman Empire, being the seat of imperial elections since 885 and the city for imperial coronations from 1562 (previously in Free Imperial City of Aachen) until 1792.
Frankfurt was a major city of the Holy Roman Empire, being the seat of imperial elections since 885 and the city for imperial coronations from 1562 until 1792. Frankfurt was declared an Imperial Free City in 1372, making the city an entity of Imperial immediacy, meaning immediately subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor and not to a regional ...
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 ...
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.
The Free City of Frankfurt, also known as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, was a sovereign city-state located in what is now modern-day Germany. Here are some historical facts about the Free City 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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