This is a very biased list to universities that survived to the modern period. There were dozens which didn't and were vastly more important at the time. E.g. h

This is a very biased list to universities that survived to the modern period. There were dozens which didn't and were vastly more important at the time. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Constantinople https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Constantinople