University of Bari

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The Aldo Moro University of Bari (Italian: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Latin: Universitas Barensis ) is a public university founded in 1925 in the southern Italian port of Bari with about 70,000 students and nearly 2,000 academic staff.

The University of Bari is divided today into a total of twelve faculties. Rector of the University of Bari, Prof. Corrado Petrocelli. The university maintains offices in Brindisi and Taranto.

Among the internationally acclaimed institutions of the University, the Centro di Studi normanno - svevi belongs with its meetings on the history of southern Italy in the Norman and Hohenstaufen period, which take place every two years since 1973. Vice- President of the Scientific Advisory Board were Carl Arnold Willemsen and Reinhard Elze.

History

The university was opened in January 1925 by Benito Mussolini, and named after him until 1943. On 9 May 2008, the 30th anniversary of the death of Aldo Moro, who had studied in Bari and at the Law School professor had been of Criminal Law, the University was named after its most famous students and faculty.