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Oxfordאוקספורד

Southern England — university town

Oxford, on the Thames in southern England, grew from a Saxon settlement at a river crossing, the 'ford of the oxen'. Teaching is recorded there by 1096 and the university grew quickly after 1167, making it the oldest in the English-speaking world. In English church history, the Protestant bishops Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer were burned there in 1555-56; the Holy Club formed by John and Charles Wesley in 1729 is often called the root of Methodism; and the Oxford Movement of 1833-45, led in part by John Henry Newman, took its name from the city. Its medieval Jewish community ended with the expulsion of England's Jews in 1290. In 1939-43 penicillin was developed into a usable medicine in its laboratories.

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