The caption says “in continuous operation”, and I take that to mean they have operated from the date given on the map until today.
Ondrej Dolezal: University of Constantinople was founded in 425 A.D. Romans rules.
The oldest University was founded in Constantinople at 425 AD, with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects, 15 to Latin and 16 to Greek. It was the first institution considered as university, in the current sense, and existed until the 15th century.
Van Gel Span: I’m sorry western history falsifiers, I hope you do it out of ignorance : The oldest University in Europe and Near East is the “Pandidaktirion of Magnaura” in Constantinople and it taught in Greek within the Greek-speaking (Eastern) Roman Empire or New Rome or Romania or Imperatorium Romanorum . It is the same state founded by Constantine the Great in 330 AD and was extinguished in 1453 AD. From 1200 AD the forger German Imperor Otto I is called Imperatorum Grecorum, title never accepted by the official Iperatorum, while today the West and unfortunately Greece calls it the Byzantine Empire. The University was founded by Emperor Theodosius II in 425 AD and since then it was under the patronage of the Emperors. During the 9th century, it was installed in the precincts of the palace, in Magnavra = Magna Aula = Great Court, now also referred to as the Pandidaktirion (University) of Magnavra. It taught the courses: Grammar, Rhetoric (law courses), Philosophy, Dialectic, Mathematics that is arithmetic and geometry, Astronomy, Medicine and Music. It operated as an independent institution. In the time of Justinian, the School of Law acquired a five-year duration of study and became independent. Theology was not taught at this University, which was taught at the Patriarchal University (School). The Isaurian dynasty (717-802) seems to have named the school “Ecumenical Teaching”. Many Primeministers (Great Logothetes) of Byzantium had a title of the Institution, like Michael Pselos,rector of the University, who worked for 3 Imperors. All early Islamic Arab institutions emulated this Pioneer Institution. The West with the University of Bologna was slow to acquire such institutions. The “Pandidaktirion of Magnavra” operated simultaneously with the Plato Academy in Athens since ancient times. The Academy was founded in Athens around 387 BC by Plato, after his first trip (398-390 BC) to Sicily. It was located in a grove of Akademia, a suburb of Athens dedicated to the Athenian hero Akadimos, from whose name it derives its name. Finally, the Academy was closed in 529 by Justinian. According to Agathias, its remaining members, including Simplicius, sought protection at the court of Chosroes I in Persia. With them they carried papyri of literary, philosophical and mathematical and to a lesser extent scientific writings. With the peace treaty between Persia and Byzantium in 532, their personal safety was guaranteed.
Toby Müller: While islamic countries were leading the way in culture and education during the middle ages, those institutes mentioned in North Africa were originally religious schools and their teaching always linked to the Islam and its laws and dogmas.
Hence I am not sure if the term “university” is appropriate. A university, from Latin “universitas”, entirety, usually meant that all (or most) fields of education were taught at it, from languages to sciences, from arts to medicine, and from law to philosophy.
Hence, not every third level institution was (and is) considered a university in the classical sense.