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Cities With the Oldest Universities on Each Continent

For each continent, name the cities with the oldest Universities. You can get the answer by guessing either the city or the University name.
Using these sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_universities_in_Hispanic_America#List; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_university_in_the_United_States
Only for Universities still operating
Please let me know if I've missed any. One on the list was not in the sources listed, but I checked myself when it was absent, so there may be others also missing. I have also posted notes in the comments section.
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Europe
1180-1190
University of Bologna, Bologna
1200-1214
University of Oxford, Oxford
1209-1225
University of Cambridge, Cambridge
1218-1219
University of Salamanca, Salamanca
1222
University of Padua, Padua
1224
University of Naples Federico II, Naples
 
 
South America
1551
National University of San Marcos, Lima
1580
Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Bogota
1613
National University of Córdoba, Cordoba
1623
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota
1624
University of San Francisco Xavier, Sucre
1677
San Cristóbal of Huamanga University, Ayacucho
 
 
North America
1538/1558
University of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo
1636
Harvard University, Boston
1676
University of San Carlos of Guatemala, Guatemala City
1693
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg
1701
Yale University, New Haven
1728
University of Havana, Havana
Asia
1645
University of Santo Tomas, Manila
1827
Serampore College, Serampore
1857
University of Madras, Chennai
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
University of Mumbai, Mumbai
1866
American University of Beirut, Beirut
 
 
Oceania
1850
University of Sydney, Sydney
1853
University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1869
University of Otago, Dunedin
1873
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
1874
University of Adelaide, Adelaide
1883
University of Auckland, Auckland
 
 
Africa
1873
University of South Africa, Cape Town
1876
University of Sierra Leone, Freetown
1902
University of Khartoum, Khartoum
1908
Cairo University, Cairo
1909
University of Algiers, Algiers
1922
Makerere University, Kampala
stubart409
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The University of Santo Domingo was first established by Papal Bull in 1538, and then by Royal Decree in 1558 as the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino. It was renamed in 1914.

Yale University was first estblished as the Collegiate School in 1701 and was Yale College from 1718-1887.

The University of Santo Thomas was originally founded in 1611 by the Dominican Order of Preachers and raised to University status in 1645 by Pope Innocent X.

The American University of Beirut was originally the Syrian Prostetant College, and took it's current name in 1920.

University of Sierra Leone was originally the Fourah Bay College established in 1827 as a missionary school to train teachers. It became affiliated to Durham University in 1876, which became part of the University of Sierra Leone in 1967.

University of Khartoum started out as the Gordon Memorial College and was established as a University when Sudan as gained independence.

stubart409
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Jun 2, 2023
Classes began in Oxford as early as 1096, but it does not seem to be recognised as an organised University until 1200.

The University of Paris was established in 1150, but was divided into 13 separate institutions in 1970.

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