Imperial City may refer to:
Places
- Imperial City, Beijing, the central section of Bejing
- Free imperial city, city formally responsible only to the emperor in the Holy Roman Empire,. The Imperial City ( Chinese: 北京皇城 Pinyin: Běijīng Huángchéng Manchu: Dorgi hoton literally "The inner city" is a section of In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city (in German: freie Reichsstadt) was a City formally ruled by the Emperor only &mdash
- Imperial City (Huế), a walled fortress and palace in the former capital of Vietnam. The Imperial City (Kinh thành Huế in Huế is 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.
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). Etymology and naming The word itself originates in the late 15th century from the Latin coruscant- 'vibrating glittering' from the verb coruscare. Tamriel is the fictional continent where the events of The Elder Scrolls games take place The Elder Scrolls (also known as Elder Scrolls or abbreviated as TES) is a Computer role-playing game series developed Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system A republic is a State or Country that is not led by a hereditary Monarch, but in which the people (or at least a part of its people have impact on its
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