Greeks have a long tradition of valuing and investing in paideia (education). Paideia was one of the highest societal values in the Greek and Hellenistic world while the first European institution described as a university was founded in 5th century <answer>Constantinople</answer> and operated in various incarnations until the city's fall to the Ottomans in 1453. The University of <answer>Constantinople</answer> was Christian Europe's first secular institution of higher learning since no theological subjects were taught, and considering the original meaning of the world university as a corporation of students, the world’s first university as well.
The first European university was created in what city?
Constantinople