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cannot_care t1_iufyylp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:55 AM

Reply to comment by Infinite-Storage-638 in TIL university of bologna in Italy is the world's oldest continuous operating university, founded in 1088. It was the first university in Europe and was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars by mankls3

Continuous, not first.

mankls3 OP t1_iug0iz0 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:07 AM

First in Europe though

Infinite-Storage-638 t1_iugzo8r wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:08 AM

The reasons for these institutions being seen as "continuous" appear contentious to me. It may boil down to a simple matter of semantics.