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Salamanca (UNIVERSITY OF famous Spanish)

UNIVERSITY OF, famous Spanish university. It was established about 1230 by Alfonso IX. of Leon and attained its greatest influence during the period from the 15th to the 17th century. While it embraced all the chief studies of the time, students particularly sought there instruction in canon and civil law. The Spanish monarchs aided particularly Ferdinand of Castile and Alfonso the Astronomer. Its financial condition was, however, not always flourishing and the Popes repeatedly came its aid. In the 16th and 17th century it shared almost the supremacy in Europe enjoyed by Paris in an earlier age. It has since been reorganized and its students now number about 1,500.