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Former Bethlen Gábor Calvinist College

Former Bethlen Gábor Calvinist College
Alba Iulia Colegiul Bethlen
Andrei kokelburg, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
school
university / college
Current function:
barracks
Address:
Suluțiu Alexandru Sterca 2
Historical Hungarian county:
Alsó-Fehér
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.0685907344, 23.5735145874
Google map:

History

The college was founded in 1622 by Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania on the model of the Heidelberg Academy. In 1658, it was moved to Nagyenyed after the Turkish punitive campaign following the unsuccessful campaign of Prince Rákóczi György II for the Polish crown. After the restoration of the building, the Reformed College of Sárospatak was housed here from 1672 until 1716, when the building was taken over by the imperial military.

Source:  muemlekem.hu
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