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Leading ratings of UK institutions call this University the best in the country; in addition, he gave the world some 50 Nobel laureates.



Oxford stands on the banks of the Thames. It is noteworthy that runs through the town stretch of the river length of 10 miles is called The Isis. In 2008, the population was 153 900 people, of whom approx. 30 000 students of the University.



Oxford was first mentioned in writing in "Anglo-Saxon Chronicles" in 912. Then in its place was a monastery St Frideswide''s nunnery.



In 1117 he founded the first in the UK University of Oxford, in order to give priests a more complete education. Only under Henry II Oxford became a University town.



In 1355, the city experienced a pogrom on the day of St. Scholastica, which killed 63 students for the city for the next 470 years, the University paid a symbolic fine.

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