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Messin Republic
République Messinoise
1189 – Present
Metz flag
Flag
Capital Metz
Languages French, German
Religion Jungism (Official)
Catholicism, Wagnerism, Judaism
Government Oligarchic republic and free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire
Historical era Middle Ages
 -  Incorporation into East Francia 910
 -  Elevated to free imperial city 1189
 -  Conversion to Jungism 1520
 -  Disestablished N/A
Population
 -  1600 est. 40,000 

Metz, also known as the Messin Republic, was a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire and republican city state centered around the eponymous city. The region of Metz has been home to an inhabited settlement since at least 450 BC, when it was settled by the Celtic Mediomatrici tribe. In 52 BC it was seized by Julius Caesar as part of the conquest of Gaul, becoming the important Roman city of Divodurum. After the fall of the Roman Empire the city was conquered by the Franks and remained one of the most important cities in the region. Metz would serve as the capital of the Merovingian Austrasia from 511 to 751, the capital of Lotharingia in 843, and was subsequently contested between West and East Francia until it was cemented as part of the later in 910.

Metz was a major city on the western edge of the Empire, placing often in contention with the nation of France and the reemergent Brabantine Kingdom of Lotharingia. Due to its strategic and cultural importance, Metz was granted imperial immediacy in 1189, making it immediately subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor and not to a regional ruler or a local nobleman. Metz historically feuded with its titular bishopric, whose bishop often sought to reassert control over the nascent city state. Metz subsequently organized itself into a republic, initially headed by a Head-Alderman representing the city, a comity of 13 aldermen acting as lay community counsellors, and an advisory House of Burgesses.

The Messin Republic would successfully defend itself from the ambitions of its more powerful neighbors on numerous occasions, notably spurning multiple attempts by Lotharingia to conquer the city in the fourteenth century, earning the city the nickname "The Maid". Metz took advantage of its position between France and the German states to leverage for greater autonomy and to evade its imperial obligations, especially after the turmoil of the Reformation in the early sixteenth century. In 1520 the city formally adopted the Jungist faith, although remained tolerant of neighboring faiths, attracting sizeable populations of religious minorities in the wake of the French Reformation and other religious wars.

The sixteenth century saw Metz begin a period of expansion at the expense of the Bishopric of Metz and other Catholic neighbors, aligning itself with the new Gallican France under Jaromir and Joan. Metz became entangled in the Amiens War as a result, and became one of the few dissenters to Habsburg dominance of the Alsace League by the end of the century. Metz would become one of the few Alsatian states to join the Forty Years' War on the side of the Jungists.