Editing Moldavia (section)

==Education==
[[File:AcademiaMihaileana.jpg|thumb|[[Academia Mihăileană]] was the first modern institution of higher learning in Moldavia.]]
In 1562, the so-called [[Ioan Iacob Heraclid|Schola Latina]] (a Latin Academic College) was founded in [[Cotnari]], near [[Iași]], a school which marked the beginnings of the organized humanistic education institutions in Moldavia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.romanianweek.ro/educatie.html |title=Schola Latina - The Foundation of the first School in which mathematics was taught in Roumania |access-date=2014-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210258/http://www.romanianweek.ro/educatie.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The first institute of higher learning that functioned on the territory of Romania was [[Vasilian College|Academia Vasiliană]] (1640),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |title=History of Education |access-date=2014-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611181940/http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |archive-date=2015-06-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> founded by Prince Vasile Lupu as a ''Higher School for Latin and Slavonic Languages'', followed by the [[Princely Academy, Iași|Princely Academy]], in 1707. The first high education structure in [[Romanian language|Romanian]] was established in the autumn of 1813, when [[Gheorghe Asachi]] laid the foundations of a class of engineers, its activities taking place within the Greek Princely Academy.

After 1813, other moments marked the development of higher education in Romanian, regarding both [[humanities]] and the technical science. [[Academia Mihăileană]], founded in 1835 by Prince Mihail Sturdza, is considered the first Romanian superior institute. In 1860, three faculties part of the Academia Mihăileană formed the nucleus for the newly established [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|University of Iași]], the first Romanian modern university.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/| title = History of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași}}</ref>