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When the first central European university was opened at Prague in 1348, the system adopted for the governing and administration of its students was that which had been employed by the older universities of Paris and Padua. This system was based on divisions of the student population, known as nations, which corresponded to the geographical location of each particular student’s home.

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1 German Student Fraternities

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Weber, R.G.S. (1986). German Student Fraternities. In: The German Student Corps in the Third Reich. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18073-8_1

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