e/Free city (antiquity)

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has gloss	eng: Free city (; ) was a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial eras. The status was given by the king or emperor, who nevertheless supervised the city's affairs through his epistates or curator (Greek: epimeletes) respectively. Several autonomous cities had also the right to issue civic coinage bearing the name of the city.
lexicalization	eng: free city
instance of	(noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" city, metropolis