Istanbul University is a prominent Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square. The precursor of Istanbul University was the University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the palace hall of Magnaura. In the Roman-Byzantine Empire it was founded in 425 under the name of Pandidakterion. The original school was founded in 425 by Emperor Theodosius II with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek. The university existed until the... 15th century. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople a madrasa, a religious school, was established. An institution of higher education named the Darülfünun-i Osmani was created in 1863, but suppressed in 1871. Its first rector was Hasan Tahsini, regarded as one of the most important Ottoman scholars of the 19th century. In 1874 the Imperial University started to give lectures in law in French, but was closed in 1881.
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| Location: | Istanbul, Istanbul Province
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| Founded: | 1453 |
| School type: | Public university |
| Total enrollment: | 88,000 |
| Colors: | Yellow, Green |