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La Universidad de Lérida (en catalán y oficialmente: Universitat de Lleida) (UdL) es una universidad española situada en la ciudad de Lérida. Es heredera del medieval Estudi General, la universidad más antigua de Cataluña y de la antigua Corona de Aragón así como la tercera más antigua de España tras las de Palencia (ya cerrada) y Salamanca (todavía en funcionamento).
The University of Lleida, shortened as UdL (Catalan: Universitat de Lleida), is the oldest university in Catalonia and the whole Crown of Aragon. It's located in the Catalan city of Lleida. It was founded between 1297 and 1301, probably with the name of Estudi General (Studium Generale) in the style of other Universities founded at that time (such as the University of Valencia), and closed down through a royal law or "Real Cédula" in 1717 along with the banning of the rest of Catalan Universities and the original political institutions of Catalonia. Felipe V founded a University in Cervera, a town 70 km. east of Lleida whose authorities had supported his side in the Spanish War of Succession in 1713, which replaced all Catalan universities.
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