royal free city

The term "royal free city" in the languages of the kingdom is:

Kolozsvar-Klausenburg became a royal free city in 1405.

By this golden bull King Bela IV proclaimed a royal free city.

In 1746-1748, when one part of Military Frontier was abolished, city was placed under civil administration and obtained royal free city status.

After the death of Joseph II the royal free cities showed a very hostile attitude toward the Jews.

In 1616, Gabriel Bethlen gave the name Marosvásárhely to the newly upgraded royal free city.

Šamorín eventually lost its right to the status of royal free city granted in 1405 during the reign of King Sigismund.

Golden Bull issued by Béla IV of Hungary; Gradec becomes a royal free city.

On 2 January 1721, Emperor Charles VI recognised the union, at the same time granting Satu Mare the status of royal free city.

The edict of empress Maria Theresa of Austria that made Novi Sad a royal free city was proclaimed on February 1, 1748.

Nevertheless, in the year 1506 Senta became a royal free city, granted that by the Czech-Hungarian King Vladislav II Jagellion.

Royal free city or free royal city was the official term for the most important cities in the Kingdom of Hungary from the 15th century until the early 20th century.

In 1765, Empress Maria Theresa granted Požega a royal free city charter and supported the construction of the present-day Cathedral of St.Teresa of Ávila.

By 1781 Timișoara was one of the most important cities of the Habsburg Monarchy and as such it received a royal free city warrant which would accelerate the development of the city even further.

According to the rescript from 1779, Fiume was considered to be a corpus separatum - that is a political body with a greater autonomy than a royal free City, or a comitatus, but a territory comparable to the other partes adnexae constituting the Crown of the St. Stephen.

An assembly of the Hungarian estates of the realm and royal free cities (szabad királyi város) had convened at Bratislava (Pozsony) since the late Middle Ages; however, it never achieved extended legislative rights in the centralised Habsburg Monarchy and the succeeding Austrian Empire.