Timbuktu is in central Africa, on the southern border of the Sahara Desert. In the mid-15th C., it was a center of Islamic learning, but tribal warfare destroyed its scholarly civilization toward the end of the century. It is now part of Mali, a small, impoverished backwater town.
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Timbuktu
Date: 2008-01-17 02:47 am (UTC)More than you wanted to know. FanSee