Imperial City

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Imperial City may refer to:

[edit] Places

  • Imperial City, Beijing, the central section of Bejing
  • Free imperial city, city formally responsible only to the emperor in the Holy Roman Empire,.
  • Imperial City (Huế), a walled fortress and palace in the former capital of Vietnam. It was intended to be a copy of the Chinese Emperor's Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

[edit] Fictional

  • Coruscant (during the reign of the Galactic Empire), a fictional planet in the center of the Star Wars galaxy
  • Imperial City, Cyrodiil, the fictional capital of the Empire of Tamriel featured in the Elder Scrolls role-playing game series

[edit] Other

It can also be a generic term for a major city that dominates the economic activities of a large region and which also builds impressive public and private structures and cultural institutions, even if it possesses a democratic government within the framework of a larger republic (for example, as described in the book Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray Brechin).