The Complutense University of Madrid, in SpanishUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, is an important Spanishuniversity, located in Madrid.
Its origins lie in the middle ages, when King Sancho IV of Castile created the Studium General on May 20, 1293. In 1499, Pope Alexander VI granted the request of one of its former pupils, Cardinal Cisneros, to convert it into a full university; this was named the Universitas Complutensis, after Complutum, which was the Latin name of Alcalá de Henares, where it was located.
In 1836 the university was moved to Madrid, with the name of Universidad Central de Madrid. In 1970 the university returned to its original name. When, later, the people of Alcalá succeded in reestablishing a university in the old buildings, they had to name it Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
The Universidad Complutense is the largest university in Spain having, at the end of 2003, more than 98,000 students, with nearly 9,500 workers, of which nearly 6000 are involved in teaching duties.
Universidades Reunidas is a consortium of U.S. university programs affiliated with the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the UniversidadComplutense.
The UniversidadComplutense's Facultad de Filosofía y Letras as well as the Universidades Reunidas are located on the Ciudad Universitaria campus on the west side of Madrid.
The Georgetown University program in Madrid serves as a liaison with Complutense and Reunidas for academic and non-academic issues and is also responsible for housing, organizes cultural activities, a tutorial program, and volunteer opportunities.
The ComplutenseUniversity of Madrid (Spanish: UniversidadComplutense de Madrid, UCM) is the most prestigious Spanish university and one of the oldest universities in the world.
It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighbouring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón.
During the Franco Regime, the ComplutenseUniversity was at the forefront of the resistance movements; the politically-active university students came to be ranked, along with the labour and nationalist movements, as one of the chief threats to the stability of the dictatorship.
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