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Leiden University (Dutch: Universiteit Leiden), shortened to LEI, is a public university in Leiden, a city in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands.

Leiden University was established on 8 February 1575 and is the oldest university of the Netherlands.

It has about 29,500 students.

Its focus is on all sorts of sciences.

Related pages[change | change source]

• Leyden jar

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Media related to Leiden University at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Dutch) (in English) Official website

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