The Autonomous University of Madrid (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM) came into being in 1968 when it had 5 main departments: Science; Political Science; Economics; Law; and Philosophy. These were originally located in different parts of Madrid, until October 25, 1971 when the University was centralised in the Cantoblanco campus and a Psychology department was opened. It now has a Medicine department, located outside the campus. There were more than 33,000 students in 2001. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Madrid is the largest city in Spain, as well as in the province and the autonomous community of the same name.
Madrid has two public operative TV channels which are (at least one of them) tunned in on at least the whole Autonomous Community of Madrid, the southern region of Castile-Leon and the northern region of Castile-La Mancha.
In Madrid, the main rail terminals are Atocha in the south and ChamartÃn in the north.