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Charles University

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Also known as Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Universitas Carolina, Univerzita Karlova, University of Prague, Karls-Universität Prag, Charles-Ferdinand University, cuni.cz, Prague University

oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic

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Charles University, also known as Karls-Universität Prag or Univerzita Karlova v Praze, is an active educational institution and funder located in Prague, Czechia. Its legal name is Univerzita Karlova, and it is situated in the Praha 1 jurisdiction. The university was established in 1348, with its inception recorded on April 7, 1348.

The institution serves a student body of 49,508 and employs 9,156 staff members. It holds the Legal Entity Identifier 31570010000000135022. The university is associated with the International Standard Name Identifier 0000 0004 1937 116X and the GRID identifier grid.4491.8.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, ROR, GLEIF. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Company

Jurisdiction
CZ
Headquarters
Praha 1, CZ

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Research organization · ROR

Type
Education, Funder
Founded
1348
Location
Prague, Czechia
Also known as
Charles University in Prague, Karls-Universität Prag, Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Status
Active
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GRID grid.4491.8 · ISNI 0000 0004 1937 116X

Wikidata facts

Instance of
university
Named after
Charles IV
Official name
Univerzita Karlova
Country
Czech Republic
Located in
Prague
Founded by
Charles IV
Headquarters
Prague
Employees
9156
Location
Prague
Official website
cuni.cz
Image
Praha, Univerzita Karlova - Karolinum.jpg
Students count
49508
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language used
Czech
member of
Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe
Commons category
Charles University
topic's main category
Category:Charles University
inception
1348-04-07
Commons gallery
Charles University in Prague
rector
Milena Králíčková
category for employees of the organization
Category:Academic staff of Charles University
IPv4 routing prefix
195.113.245.0/24
category for alumni of educational institution
Category:Charles University alumni
affiliation
Coimbra Group
native label
Univerzita Karlova v Praze
API endpoint URL
cas.cuni.cz/idp/shibboleth
social media followers
14000
P8168
Albania at the 2008 Summer Olympics
P12749
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
ranking
246
web feed URL
www.cuni.cz/rsshome.php?web=UK
number of viewers/listeners
3240673
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Encyclopedic overview

Affiliations4EU+ Alliance Coimbra Group EUA Europaeum UNICA Websitecuni.cz

Charles University (CUNI; Czech: Univerzita Karlova, UK; Latin: Universitas Carolina; German: Karls-Universität), also known historically as the University of Prague (Latin: Universitas Pragensis), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the third oldest university north of the Alps (after the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge). Today, the university consists of 17 faculties located in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Plzeň.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles University” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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