University of Crete

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Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης
University of Crete
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founding 1973
Sponsorship state
place Heraklion and Rethymno , Crete GreeceGreeceGreece 
Rector Odysseas Zoras
Students approx. 17,000
Employee about 500
Website www.uoc.gr

The University of Crete ( Greek Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης ) is a Greek university on the island of Crete with locations in Rethymno and Heraklion .

Student residence and library in Rethymno

history

The university was founded in 1973. The long-standing plans to found a university in Crete entered a decisive phase in the 1960s. The larger Cretan cities fought bitterly over the seat of the university. General Stylianos Pattakos , who came from Rethymno and who as Minister of the Interior for a long time from 1967, was the “second man” of the Greek military regime , succeeded in first assigning the seat to his hometown. This decision was called into question again after the collapse of junta rule in 1974. Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis resolved the dispute through a compromise: Heraklion received the medical and natural science faculties and Rethymno the humanities faculties of the University of Crete, Chania became the seat of the State Technical University of Crete ( Greek Πολυτεχνίο Κρήτης , "polytechnic").

General plan of the Rethymno site

Faculties

Besides the Technical University of Crete, the university is the only university on the island and offers a total of 20 subjects at five faculties ( Greek σχολές , “schools” ).

Personalities

Professors

Alumni

  • Ulrich Moennig (* 1961), Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist, guest auditor and guest lecturer

Doctores honoris causa

See also

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