University of Dyrrhachium
Medieval university in Albania
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The University of Dyrrachium (Latin: Universitas Studiorum Dyrrhachium, Albanian: Universiteti i Studimeve të Durrёsit)[1][2] was a Venetian theological university (Studium generale) in Durrës (Dyrrhachium), Venice, then Republic of Venice.[3] The university was established around 1380, with its first rector being John of Dyrrhacium, and then transferred to Zadar in 1396, amid the mounting Ottoman threats in South-eastern Europe, thereby becoming the University of Zadar.[4]
