Sister cities and partner institutions are valuable ways to share ideas and marketing, but few partners can boast more than a millennium of history.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore?s new partner in Italy reopened this year after being shuttered in 1811. Though its origins go back before the 10th century, the Western world?s first medical school near Salerno in Italy accepted guidance and assistance from America?s oldest public medical school for its rebirth.

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