University of Ghent
Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent or UGent) is one of the two large Flemish universities. It is located in the historic town of Gent in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) part of Belgium.
It is a relatively young university, founded in 1817. The year before, king William I of the Netherlands had proclaimed the establishment of three universities in the Southern Netherlands. The language of teaching from 1817 till Belgium's autonomy and separation from the Netherlands (1830 was Latin; from 1830 till 1930 it was first French and then a bilingual (FrenchDutch) system. In 1930, Ghent University became the first Belgian university to teach in the Dutch language.
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