is there any place named TIMBUKTU?? if yes,where is it??

Answer 1

Yes it is in western Africa

Answer 2

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali. It is historically important as a post on the trans-Saharan caravan route. It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Niger River. Timbuktu was a centre for the expansion of Islam, an intellectual and spiritual capital at the end of the Mandingo Askia dynasty (1493-1591) and home to a prestigious Koranic university.

Answer 3

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali. It is historically important as a post on the trans-Saharan caravan route. It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 mi (13 km) north of the Niger River. Timbuktu was a centre for the expansion of Islam, an intellectual and spiritual capital at the end of the Mandingo Askia dynasty (1493-1591) and home to a prestigious Koranic university. Three great mosques built at that time, using traditional techniques, still remain.

Answer 4

Timbuktu, Timbuctu or Timbuctoo (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu, French: Tombouctou) is a city populated by the Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Moorish people in the West African country of Mali. It is often said to lie on the River Niger, but is actually 15 km north of the river.

Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status, and in the West it was for long a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu." Timbuktu's most long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization is scholarship. By at least the fourteenth century, important books were written and copied in Timbuktu, establishing the city as the center of a significant written tradition in Africa.

Answer 5

YES.

It is a wonderful place with an amazing mosque, library and school that dates back to well into the middle ages when us Europeans were in the "Dark Ages"

The people are friendly and open once they realise you are not from a government organisation.

There is a great jazz festival held nearby every other year.

It is a challenge to get there. Up the Niger river then by local transport is fun.

The Tuaregs that come to the market have the most amazing robes and bolts of cloth in the deepest indigo you will ever have seen. The only surprise is that when I bought some it had Chinese markings on the bolt centre and was "Made in China"

Even remote places are so accessible these days

Answer 6

Timbuktu is a real place in the country of Mali in Africa.

Answer 7

Yes, I think it's a real place -- not sure where it is---Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali. ... Timbuktu was a centre for the expansion of Islam, an intellectual and ...
http://thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-timbuktu.html - 6k - the lady above me who said Mali is right ... I guess i learned something today ... Thanks for asking the question :-)

Answer 8

actuall yes .. there is a place called timbuktu and its in Mali in western africa.. read [http://thesalmons.org/lynn/wh-timbuktu.html] if u are a timbuktu fan!

there are places with more weird name on this planet!!

Answer 9

There is a street in a town in Essex, UK called TIMBUKTU. My daughter went there a while back and took a photo of the street sign with her mobile to prove it existed!

Answer 10

Tiimbuktu is an educational, cultural and Islamic religious center in the African nation of Mali. It was historically, the first of it's magnitude in that part of west Africa.

Answer 11

In oliver twist yes