Imperial City

Imperial City may refer to Rome and:

Places

• Imperial City, Beijing, the central section of Beijing
• Imperial City (Huế), a walled fortress and palace in the former capital of Vietnam.
• Free imperial city, city formally responsible only to the emperor in the Holy Roman Empire,.
• Cusco, an ancient Inca city in Peru often cited as The Imperial City
• Constantinople, Referred to as the Imperial City during the Byzantine Period at times.
• Toledo, an important city of the Spanish Empire

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

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).

See also

• Imperial Capital (disambiguation)