Magdeburg rights or Magdeburg law were a set of
German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with it by a local ruler. Modelled and named after the laws of the
Imperial Free City of
Magdeburg developed during many centuries of the
Holy Roman Empire, it was possibly the most important set of Germanic
mediæval city laws. Adopted by numerous monarchs in Central and Eastern Europe, the law was a milestone in urbanization of the region and prompted the development of thousands of villages and cities. Apart from Magdeburg itself, notable towns located on Magdeburg Law (or its local variants) were
Biecz,
Frysztak,
Sandomierz,
Kraków,
Poznań,
Wrocław,
Hrodna,
Kiev,
Lviv,
Lutsk,
Volodymyr-Volynskyi,
Sanok,
Sniatyn, and
Nizhyn, as well as
Bardejov,
Humenné and
Krupina in present-day
Slovakia, then the
Kingdom of Hungary.
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