A historic city in Mali famous for its earthen mosques and libraries rich with valuable manuscripts.
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Timbuktu
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Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali situated at the southern edge of the Sahara, connected to trans-Saharan caravan routes and celebrated as an African center of Islamic scholarship. Renowned for the historic Sankore Mosque and universities, its family libraries have preserved hundreds of thousands of manuscripts in astronomy, medicine, law, and literature.
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