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> may as well be a city-state enclave. It's had one of those for a very long time. The City of London is historically a corporation run largely by trade guilds
by robotresearcher 11y ago
> may as well be a city-state enclave.
It's had one of those for a very long time. The City of London is historically a corporation run largely by trade guilds. The City (as locals know it - London doesn't have a downtown) has its own rules.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoSeveral in fact. One of my favourite parts of London is middle Temple, which for a period was a walled city, with its own army, that defend the rights of its lawyers to ... do lawyering. The 13th century was interesting down by the strand.
- robotresearcher 11y agoRight, and one of this sweet little cluster of neighbouring cities was Westminster, which ended up running the largest empire in history. And now, a hundred years later, arguably the City of London is more important than Westminster.