Institution
Vilnius University
Vilnius University is the oldest university in the Baltic states, founded in 1579 when King Stephen Báthory raised the Jesuit college of Vilnius to the rank of an academy. It became the main centre of learning of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Closed by the Russian authorities in 1832 after the November Uprising, it reopened in 1919 and remains Lithuania's leading university.
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