Timbuktu is a real place (see link). When used casually as in the question, it usually indicates that a place (or idea, etc.) is unimaginably far away, completely foreign, or unreachable. It means extremely far or a great distance [Edit by Dragongirl515: According to a popular etymology it`s name is made of tin-meaning "Place". And buktu- meaning an old woman who was entrusted with un-wanted belongines. When a traveler was asked where he left his belongins he would say "I left them at tin buktu." Meaning where the buktu lived. The two words ended up fusing into Timbuktu. Then were translated in the Berber languages: "Buqt" meaning "Far away" so tin-buqt means a place close to the end of the world. IE the Sahara desert. [end edit]
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It is a city in West Africa but as a slang term it means a place far, far away.
Giovanni Battista Belzoni died of fever on December 3, 1823, trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu.
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The phrase "as far away as Timbuktu" is used figuratively to indicate a very distant or remote location. Timbuktu is a city in Mali that is historically known for being a difficult and faraway place to reach.
That means they live in far away place
Timbuktu is on Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) all year.
dayten thats what its is i want to make a shout out to my teachers professor chris and michelle
It is a city in West Africa but as a slang term it means a place far, far away.
Timbuktu in northern Mali, on the edge of the Sahara desert has had a long-lasting scholastic contribution to Islamic and world civilization. (Timbuktu is assumed to have had one of the first universities in the world, with 25,000 students back in the 1400s. Local scholars and collectors still boast an impressive collection of ancient Greek texts from that era.) It was known to early European culture and gained the status of a fabled city at the far end of the world - in the middle of the Sahara desert (and almost impossible to get to!). Thus the phrase "as far as Timbuktu" came to mean or indicate a place that is unimaginably far away, completely foreign, or unreachable - at the other end of the earth.
dayten thats what its is i want to make a shout out to my teachers professor chris and michelle
dayten thats what its is i want to make a shout out to my teachers professor chris and michelle
when much of Europe was struggling out of the Dark Ages, the emperor of Timbuktu having stunning mosques built, and thousands of scholars from as far as Islamic India and Moorish Spain were studying the city
Timbuktu is not a continent; it is a city located in Mali, West Africa. Mali is a country in the continent of Africa.
There is no capital of Timbuktu (a city). It was the capital of the Mali Empire.
Timbuktu is located in the Northern Hemisphere.