University of Lleida

Infobox_University
name = University of Lleida
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established = 1297
city = Lleida
state = Catalonia
country = Spain
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students = 9,650 [ [http://www.udl.cat/en/udl/presentation.html University of Lleida. Presentation ] ]
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staff =
faculty = 750
website = [http://www.udl.cat/en/udl.html udl.cat/en/]

The University of Lleida, shortened as UdL ( _ca. Universitat de Lleida), is the oldest university in Catalonia and the whole Crown of Aragon. It's located in the Catalan city of Lleida. It was founded between 1297 and 1301, probably with the name of "Estudi General" (Studium Generale) in the style of other Universities founded at that time (such as the University of Valencia), and closed down through a royal law or "Real Cédula" in 1717 along with the banning of the rest of Catalan Universities and the original political institutions of Catalonia. Felipe V founded a University in Cervera, a town 70 km. east of Lleida whose authorities had supported his side in the Spanish War of Succession in 1713, which replaced all Catalan universities.

It was refounded on December 12, 1991 after a few hundred years parentheses by a law passed by the Catalan Parliament, and since then, besides the historical central edification located in Rambla d'Aragó, in what is nowadays the town district called "Universitat", new buildings have been added to it.

See also

* Joan Lluís Vives Institute
* List of universities in Spain

References

External links

* [http://www.udl.cat/en/udl.html English site]
* [http://www.udl.cat/ Official site]