Although Abensberg was an autonomous city, it remained dependent on the powerful Dukes of Bavaria.

During the Middle Ages, Aachen remained a city of regional importance, due to its proximity to Flanders, achieving a modest position in the trade in woollen cloths, favoured by imperial privilege.

Only 4, 000 inhabitants remained in the city ; the rest had followed evacuation orders.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

After conquering Edirne ( Adrianople ) in 1365 the Ottomans turned it into a joint capital city for governing their European realms, but Bursa remained the most important Anatolian administrative and commercial center even after it lost its status as the sole Ottoman capital.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.

The city had remained neutral through the Swabian War of 1499 despite being plundered by soldiers on both sides.

When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.

What remained of the city was razed by fire.

The city played no major role in the Industrial Revolution, but remained the centre of administration and a transport hub for most of the island.

The city of Rome itself and the surrounding Suburbicarian diocese ( where Roman senators held the bulk of their landed property ), however, remained exempt.

Detroit was ( and still is ) the largest city bordering Canada, where alcohol remained legal during Prohibition.

Eindhoven remained a minor city after that until the start of the industrial revolution.

Although enclosed by Thuringian territory in the west, south and east, the city remained part of the Prussian Province of Saxony until 1944.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

Although the city of Rome was in ruins, distant from the seat of secular power, and constantly harassed by invaders, the Roman Patriarchate remained the center of the Western or Latin Church.

LaGuardia remained Mayor of New York, shuttling back and forth with three days in Washington and four in the city in an effort to do justice to two herculean jobs.

All of those who could afford it left the city, but Zwingli remained and continued his pastoral duties.

With the approval of Calvin, the other plotters who remained in the city were found and executed.

The site remained uninhabited until the city was refounded in the 9th century BCE.

The city came to be ruled by the Hasmoneans, following the success of the Maccabean Revolt, and remained such until the Roman influence over the area brought Herod to claim the Hasmenean throne of Judea.

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

The school was fashioned as " a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the city and county of New York.

The Government of the Irish Free State rebuilt the city centre and located the new parliament, the Oireachtas, in Leinster House.

The authorities and seaport workers of the Free City of Danzig felt Poland's economic rights in the city were being misappropriated to help fight the war.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

The city was granted a charter in 1274 by Rudolf I of Habsburg, King of Germany, who declared the city an Imperial Free City in 1291 ; nevertheless the bishop of Speyer, a major landowner in the district, seized the city in 1324.

From 1867 to 1890 the fledgling church, known as the Free Protestant Church, rented premises in a commercial building in Cape Town, and in 1890 a warehouse in the city was purchased and converted into the present church.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

* 1272 – The city of Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

Dresden (; ) is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

Oldenburg became the capital of the County of Oldenburg ( later of the Duchy, Grand Duchy, and Free State ), a small state in the shadow of the much more powerful Hanseatic city of Bremen.

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg now became the Free State of Oldenburg ( Freistaat Oldenburg ), the city remained capital.

By this golden bull King Bela IV proclaim a Free Royal Borough ( free and royal city ).

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

The Free Trade Bridge accesses a four-lane highway in northern Mexico, offering a fast route to the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, as well as the industrial city of Monterrey.

In 1189, Metz rose to the status of Free Imperial City, limiting greatly the influence of the Bishops on the city.

Free shuttle buses run from several points in the city to the MEGA shopping complex, which opened in October 2006 in Fedyakovo, a few kilometers to the east of the Nizhny Novgorod city line.

The Champs-Élysées, because of its size and proximity to several Parisian landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, has been the site of several notable military parades, the most infamous being the march of German troops celebrating the Fall of France on 14 June 1940, and the two most famous, the subsequent marches of Free French and American forces after the liberation of the city, respectively, the French 2nd Armored Division on 26 August 1944, and the U. S. 28th Infantry Division on 29 August 1944.

One of Fisher's first acts after opening LHA headquarters was to hire F. T. Grenell, city editor of the Detroit Free Press, as a part-time publicity man.

As part of the Holy Roman Empire since 1034, the city became the Archbishopric of Besançon, and became the Free Imperial City of Besançon ( an autonomous city-state under the Holy Roman Emperor ) in 1184.