title: Aleksandrovska University Hospital
text: # Aleksandrovska University Hospital
  
  The Aleksandrovska University Hospital (Bulgarian: университетска болница „Александровска“) is a university hospital in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was founded in 1879 and was named after the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I Battenberg in October 1884. A military hospital between 1912 and 1919, it was the site where the Sofia Medical University was founded in 1917.
  
  The hospital is situated on 258,000 $m^2$ (2,780,000 sq ft), having a capacity of 1,100 beds and a staff of 540.
  
  