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Encyclopedia > Catholic University of Louvain

The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968:

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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (499 words)
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (or K.U.Leuven, or in English Catholic University of Leuven - also the translated name of its French-speaking sister university) - is a Flemish university, located in the town of Leuven in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) region of Belgium.
It was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V and is now the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence.
The Dutch University of Leuven remained in the city of Leuven, while the French speaking Université Catholique de Louvain moved to the newly built campus of Louvain-la-Neuve, south of the linguistic border dividing Belgium.
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