Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spanish universities were also conscious foundations: Palenia in 1212, Salamanca in 1243, Valenzia in 1245, Sevilla in 1254, Alcata in 1293, Lerida...
...University of Heidelberg stands among the oldest as well as among the most famous of all the universities. Only seven of them are her seniors: Bologna (1140), Paris (1142), Oxford (1200), Padua (1222), Salamanca (1250), Prague (1348), Vienna (1356). Among these seven only one, Oxford, can claim to rival her in glory. It was to be expected that when the five hundredth anniversary of her birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious...