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		One of the earliest academies established in the east was the 7th century Academy of Gundishapur in Sassanid Persia.
		The Church of St. Triton on Kolokynthou Street, Athens, occupies the southern corner of the Academy, confirmed in 1966 by the discovery of a boundary stone dated to 500 BC.
		Academies proliferated in the 20th century until even a three-week series of lectures and discussions would be termed an "academy." In addition, the generic term "the academy" is sometimes used to refer to all of academia, which is sometimes considered a global successor to the Academy of Athens.
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	Academy of Gundishapur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy of Gundishapur (in Persian: دانشگاه گنديشاپور‎) was a renowned center of learning in the city of Gundeshapur during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire.
		The academy survived the change of rulers and persisted for several centuries as a Muslim institute of higher learning.
		There the methods of Gundishapur were emulated; indeed, the House of Wisdom was staffed with graduates of the older Academy of Gondeshapur.
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		An academy is an institution for the study of higher learning.
		The revived Academy in Athens, housed in neoclassical splendorBefore the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city walls of ancient Athens (Thucydides ii:34).
		Other national academies include the Académie Francaise; the Royal Academy of the United Kingdom; the International Academy of Science, the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY; the United States Naval Academy, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who give the Academy awards.
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		An academy is an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning.
		Other national academies include the Académie Francaise; the Royal Academy of the United Kingdom; the International Academy of Science, the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; the United States Naval Academy.
		A fundamental feature of academic discipline in those academies that were training-schools for artists was regular practice in making accurate drawings from antiquities, or from casts of antiquities, on the one hand, and on the other, in deriving inspiration from the other fount, the human form.
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		The Academy, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students Philosophy, Mathematics, and Gymnastics, and is sometimes considered a forerunner of modern European universities.
		In the Carolingian period, a famous academy was created by Charlemagne for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help train the professionals needed to run an empire.
		It was a foreshadow of the rise of the University in the 11th century.
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		Academies appeared in Italy in the 15th century and reached their greatest influence in the 17th–18th centuries.
		A.D. The Academy has come to mean the entire school of Platonic philosophy, covering the period from Plato through Neoplatonism under Proclus.
		The modern Academy of Athens, next to the University of Athens and the National Library forming 'the Trilogy', designed by Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture.
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		Arguably the first western Universify was the Academy founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove ofAcademos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics andgymnastics.
		In the Carolingian period a famous academy was created by Charlemagne for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help trainthe professionals needed to run an empire.
		It was a foreshadow of the rise of the Unifersity in the 11th century.
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	Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In some countries, notably France, academic councils called Academies are responsible for supervising all aspects of University education in a given region.
		Universities are answerable to their Academy, and the Academies are answerable to the Ministry of Education.
		This is not an exclusive use of the word "Academy" in France, note especially Académie Française.
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		Times Union - AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- An airman with the 10th Mission Support Squadron based at the Air Force Academy was charged Wednesday with raping a female airman on New Year's Eve, a newspaper reported.
		Other national academies include the AcadÃ©mie Francaise; the Royal Academy of the United Kingdom; the International Academy of Science, the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY; the United States Naval Academy.
		In England Academies are a type of secondary school introduced in the early years of the 21st century.
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		The Platonic Academy is usually contrasted with Aristotle's own creation, the Lyceum.
		The site of the Academy was rediscovered in the 20th century; considerable excavation has been accomplished and visiting the site is free.
		Other national academies include the Académie Française; the Royal Academy of the United Kingdom; the International Academy of Science; the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; the United States Naval Academy; United States Air Force Academy; and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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		The Barmakids were influential in bringing scholars from the nearby Academy of Gundishapur, facilitating the introduction of Greek and Indian science into the Arabic world.
		As many as 30 movie theatres were reported to have been converted to live stages, producing a wide range of comedies and dramatic productions.
		Baghdad is also home to a number of museums which housed artifacts and relics of ancient civilizations; many of these were stolen, and the museums looted, during the widespread chaos immediately after U.S. forces entered the city.
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		Arguably the first western university was the Academy founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics and gymnastics.
		About a thousand years after Plato, institutions bearing a resemblance to the modern university existed in Persia and the Islamic world, notably the Academy of Gundishapur and later also Al Azhar university in Cairo, which remains the oldest operating university in the world.
		One of the most important Asian universities, next to the Persian Academy of Gundishapur, was Nalanda, in Bihar, India, where the second century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna was based.
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		The Academy, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato online bingo in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered a forerunner of modern European universities.
		One of the most important Asian institutions resembling a university, next to the Persian Academy of Gundishapur, was Nalanda, in Bihar, India, where online bingo the second century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna was based.
		In the Carolingian cyberbingo period, a famous academy was created by Charlemagne for the purpose of educating the children of aristocrats to help train the professionals needed to run an empire.
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		and Plato's Academy are the earliest, historically-documented universities.
		The School, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered to resemble a university.
		Another school, nowadays embodied by the Brexgata University Academy, was founded in the year 798 by Carolingian leaders.
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	World Association of International Studies » Blog Archive » PERSIA: The University of Gundishapir
		It was located in the present-day province of Khuzestan, in the southwest of Iran, not far from the Karun river.” “According to Cyril Elgood in A Medical History of Persia, “to a very large extent, the credit for the whole hospital system must be given to Persia” (Cambridge University Press, p.
		There is even evidence that graduates had to pass exams in order to practice as accredited Gundishapur physicians (as recorded in an Arabic text, the Tarikh al-hikama).
		Founded in 271 CE by a ruler of the Sassanid dynasty, Jondishapour was home to the world’s oldest known teaching hopsital, and also comprised a library and a university.
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		During his reign many historical annals were compiled, of which the sole survivor is the Karnamak-i Artaxshir-i Papakan (Deeds of Ardashir), a mixture of history and romance that served as the basis of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnama.
		Under Khosrau I the college of Gundishapur, which had been founded in the 4th century, became "the greatest intellectual center of the time," drawing students and teachers from every quarter of the world.
		Neoplatonists, too, came to Gundishapur, where they planted the seeds of Sufi mysticism; the medical lore of India, Persia, Syria, and Greece mingled there to produce a flourishing school of therapy.
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		According to some sources the medical academy at Gundishapur was well established by the 6th Century AD.
		The academy included the world’s oldest known teaching hospital and incorporated a library and university.
		In addition to systemising medical treatment and knowledge, the scholars of the academy also transformed medical education; rather than apprenticing with just one physician, medical students were required to work in the hospital under the supervision of the whole medical faculty.
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		If we consider the original and proper meaning of the word (from the latin "universitas": a corporation of students), then universities are a typical medieval European phenomenon and the oldest university is the University of Bologna in northern Italy (founded in 1088 and known as "Alma Mater Studiorum").
		Nevertheless, if we consider the wider and vaguer meaning of university as a higher education institution, then the oldest university could be Plato's Academy or even Shangyang, which may have originated before the 21st century BC in China.
		In the Carolingian period, Charlemagne created a type of academy, called the palace school or scola palatina, in Aachen, a city in present-day Germany.
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		For pharmacy, manuals on materia medica and for instructing the pharmacist concerning the work and management of his shop were circulating in increasing numbers.
		Among them was Abu Zakariya Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, a Persian physician from the academy of Gundishapur.
		Born in 777 AD into a family of physicians from Gundishapur, in western Iran, Ibn Masawayh (known to Europeans as Mesuë or filius Mesuë) became court physician to the caliph in Baghdad and director of a hospital there.
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		The Academy, flanked by the National Library and the University of Athens, designed by Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in a Greek Ionic academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture
		Allen Cameron, "The last days of the Academy at Athens," in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society vol 195 (n.s.
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		Arguably the first western Univeraity was the Academy founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove ofAcademos near Athens, where students were taught philosophy, mathematics andgymnastics.
		About a thousand years later, institutions bearing a resemblance to the modern Universuty existed in Persia and the Islamic world, notably the Academy of Gundishapur and later also Al Azhar Uhiversity in Cairo, which remains the oldest operating Univesrity in the world.
		It was a foreshadow of the rise of the Universoty in the 11th century.
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		He was also the first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy.
		The American writer Peter Lamborn Wilson worked at the Academy for several years prior to 1980.
		Lamborn Wilson's studies in later years are problematic as to consistency with the tenets of Iranian Philosophy as figured in the curriculum of the Academy.
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		Other options include "institute", "academy", "union," and "school" as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1], United States Military Academy at West Point, New York [2], Cooper Union, or the Juilliard School.
		The higher learning institution - imperial central academy, was called Piyong in Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - 249 BC), Taixue in Han Dynasty (202 - 220) and Guozijian in Sui dynasty.
		For example, Nanjing University traces its source back to the imperial central academy at Nanking founded in 258 by the Kingdom of Wu.
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		The awarding of academic titles was not a custom of other educational institutions at the time but ancient institutions of higher learning also existed in China (Yuelu Academy), Greece (the Academy), and Persia (Academy of Gundishapur)
		In China, there were a number of institutions of higher learning that vaguely resembled universities in the Western sense of the word.
		In China, it is recorded that the education system had been established during the Yu period (2257–2208 BC) and the imperial central academy was named Shangyang (Shang means higher and Yang means school) at the time.
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		The first teachings of medical sciences where taught in enclosed rooms by physicians letting students practicing on patients.
		This was known as The Academy of Gundishapur, where they firmly believed in xenotransplantation, or the idea of transporting cells from one species to another, like a pig from a human, in order to try to end organ failure.
		Forming Jundishapur's medical academy, they created the first few medical encyclopedias, composed in 1111CE and more formed in 1136CE by Savyed Ismail Gorgani, and Dhakhira-I Khwarazmshahi.
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		The Islamic World rose to primacy in medical science with such thinkers as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Nafis and Rhazes.
		The first generation of Persian superb physicians were trained at the Academy of Gundishapur, where the teaching hospital was the first invented.
		The Comprehensive Book of Medicine (Large Comprehensive, Hawi or al-Hawi or The Continence) was written by the Iranian chemist Rhazes (known also as Razi), the Large Comprehensive was the most sought after of all his compositions.
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		In terms of cultural, religious, and military achievements i think the Sassanid era surpasses all the others in achievement.
		It was an era where outstanding achievements were made in literature, music, military organization and education by the founding of academy of Gundishapur which was established offering teaching in philosophy, medicine, theology and science.
		The Sassanians also contributed greatly in architecture and their style influence heavily Islamic and Byzantine architecture as well.
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