The University of Zagreb is a public research university in Zagreb, Croatia, the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. Its history began on 23 September 1669, when Emperor Leopold I issued a decree founding the Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. After the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, Empress Maria Theresa founded the Royal Academy of Science in 1776. Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer proposed a university in 1861, the Act of Founding was passed in 1874, and the Royal University of Franz Joseph I opened on 19 October 1874. It now has 29 faculties, three art academies and more than 70,000 students.
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