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Timbuktu. As a mammoth trade point, at times as many as 11 languages and >100 dialects used the same name.
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∙ 14y ago'Timbuktu' is the correct spelling of this word. The question title has been corrected to this spelling as well.
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What is the meaning of the phrase as far away as Timbuktu?
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.
The city of timbuktu had a famous university with a large library containing greek and roman books?
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What part of speech is the word local?
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What is the origin of the word chimpanzee?
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Local legends indicate that Timbuktu was named for an old who lived in the eleventh century Her name is said to have meant ''Mother with the?
Timbuktu is a place name, not a personal name like Victoria, Regina, etc.
What is the largest city in Timbuktu?
Timbuktu is itself a city and also the name of a region in Mali, a country in Africa. The city of Timbuktu is the capital of the Timbuktu region.
What is the continent of Timbuktu?
Timbuktu is in Africa.
What is the capital of Timbuktu?
There is no capital of Timbuktu (a city). It was the capital of the Mali Empire.
What did songhai people wear?
the Songhai people weared a clothes name Timbuktu
What hemisphere is timbuktu on?
Timbuktu is on the eastern hemisphere.
What do they do for entertainment in timbuktu mali?
what did the timbuktu do for entertainment?
What are the people from Timbuktu called?
timbuktu-nians :)
Who invented Timbuktu?
No one invented Timbuktu, it is a city. Timbuktu was founded by the Tuareg Imashagan in the 11th century.
Timbuktu's population today?
Timbuktu's population today?
What countries border Timbuktu?
Timbuktu was a city and not a country.
What continent is timbuktu on?
Timbuktu is in Mali in western Africa.
