ethiopia has an area called the university of ethiopia
about 4000 jews who claim to be one of the lost tribes of israel are estimated to still live in ethiopia along with many more members of two related ethnoreligious groups the falash mura and the beta abraham
 this pace continued until by the end of the 18th century there were approximately 143 universities in europe with the highest concentrations in the german empire 34 italian countries 26 france 25 and spain 23  this was close to a 500 increase over the number of universities toward the end of the middle ages