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Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point. It is the capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state.
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Regensburg (von lateinisch Castra Regina; auch lateinisch Ratisbona oder Ratispona) liegt in Ostbayern und ist die Hauptstadt des Regierungsbezirks Oberpfalz mit Sitz der Regierung der Oberpfalz. Die kreisfreie Stadt ist auch Sitz des Landrats des gleichnamigen Landkreises.
Regensburg ( German pronunciation: [ʁɛ:gənsbʊɐ̯k]; Czech: Řezno, Austro-Bavarian: [ʁɛŋsbʊɐ̯k]; Rengschburg or Rengschbuach [ʁɛŋsbʊax]) is a city in the south of Germany, in the east of the state of Bavaria . It has about 138,000 inhabitants and a university .
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Attempts to establish a university in Regensburg had been advocated since the late 15th century. In 1487, Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria and the Regensburg city council sent a petition to Pope Innocent VIII to establish a university within the city. The idea was rejected, failing for economic reasons. In 1562, Croatian Protestant reformer Matthias Fla...
Situated almost entirely on one central campus, the university is located south of Regensburg's inner city on a small incline south of the Danube River, and directly adjacent to the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences and the A 3 autobahn. The university itself consists of 150 hectares (280 acres) of land, encompassing a botanical garden and ...
The university is structured into eleven faculties: 1. Faculty of Catholic Theology 2. Faculty of Law 3. Faculty of Business and Economics 4. Faculty of Medicine 5. Faculty of Informatics and Data Science 6. Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities 7. Faculty of Psychology, Education, and Sport Science 8. Faculty of Languages, Li...
With its twelve faculties, the university employs a wide variety of traditional programmes of study. The university was one of the first German universities to introduce modularized study programs following the Bologna model. Since 2000, most study programs have introduced bachelor's as well as master's degrees in recent years. Doctoral degreescan ...
Key fields of activity include the Natural Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Bio-Sciences, Chemistry and Pharmacy), the Humanities (History, Philologies) and Medicine. The German Research Association(DFG) currently sponsors two collaborative research centres (the SFB 1085 "Higher Invariants -interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysi...
The University of Regensburg has been featured in various international university rankings. According to the QS World University Rankings of 2024, it is ranked in the 741–750 range globally and holds the 38th position within Germany. Additionally, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities(ARWU) of 2023, the University of Regensburg placed in t...
On campus, students are provided with a large central cafeteria (Mensa) and several smaller ones, a pizzeria, a bank, a bookshop as well as various other shops. The open-access University Library, with its modern online catalogue and loan system, holds over 3.15 million books and periodicals. All students receive a PINcode for the computers, which ...
The university currently maintains links with over 130 European academic institutions. The number of partner universities in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Cyprus and the Baltic States has steadily grown ever since the initiation of the programme for associated countries. The university now has over 20 partners in these countries. Favouri...
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River Danube. Regensburg is one of Germany's oldest towns, founded by the Romans in 179 AD. It is in the German federal state of Bavaria, at the northernmost point of the river Danube. As capital of the district of Upper Palatinate and also its biggest settlement, Regensburg today is a thriving city of about 137,000 inhabitants.
Regensburg is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north, in clockwise direction) the districts of Schwandorf , Cham , Straubing-Bogen , Kelheim and Neumarkt . The city of Regensburg is enclosed by it, but is not part of the district; nonetheless it is its administrative seat.
History. The history of Regensburg reaches back far more than 2000 years. Detail Gründungsurkunde Regensburg © Stadt Regensburg, Peter Ferstl. The Stone Ages Men have settled on the Danube Regensburg. The Celtic name Radasbona was the oldest name given to a prehistoric settlement here.