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    3. tipoftheiceberg1234 on

      To think some of us may be alive to watch university of bologna celebrate its 1000th year of existence

    7. GustavoistSoldier on

      Enver Hoxha founded Albania’s first university. He sucked, but Albania was medieval before him

    8. Grzechoooo on

      >The oldest continuously operating universities

      “*not in continuous operation”

    9. Firingfly on

      Interesting fact about Helsinki university: it was originally founded in Turku, another city, and it later on moved to Helsinki. This is because Helsinki didn’t really even exist when it was enstablished. So, the university is older than the city it is located in and named after.

    11. Nihan-gen3 on

      Belgium has Leuven though, it was established in 1425. It’s literally 400 years older than the country Belgium.

    15. JACC_Opi on

      Your source is Wikipedia?!

      I like Wikipedia, but it ain’t a source, it is a starting point.

    19. Liagon on

      If the Sorbonne is counted for France even after being split then KUL/UCL should be counted for Belgium (1425)

    22. Beltrane1 on

      Why is St Andrews in Scotland not there. When it was founded in 1413 Scotland was not part of the United Kingdom so it should be represented on the map.

    23. unique_username4815 on

      Shouldn’t the oldest university of Russia be Kaliningrads university? Accoridng to Wikipedia the university of Königsberg does technically not exist anymore, but Kaliningrads university is the defacto successor

    24. JaimieC on

      I expected Greece to have some older universities but I guess they weren’t continuously operated?