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It is a relatively young university, founded in 1817. The year before, king William I of the Netherlands had proclaimed the establishment of three universities in the Southern Netherlands. The language of teaching from 1817 till Belgium's autonomy and separation from the Netherlands (1830 was Latin; from 1830 till 1930 it was first French and then a bilingual (French–Dutch) system. In 1930, Ghent University became the first Belgian university to teach in the Dutch language.
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