Where is timbukto and how is it spelled?

Answer 1

Timbuktu
(Archaic English: Timbuctoo;
Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu;
French: Tombouctou)
is a city in Mali, West Africa. It is home to the prestigious Qur'anic Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.

Timbuktu is populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Moorish people, and is about 15 km north of the River Niger. It is also at the intersection of an east–west and a north–south Trans-Saharan trade across the Sahara to Araouane. It was important historically (and still is today) as an entrepot for rock-salt from Taoudenni.

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 long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization is scholarship . By the fourteenth century, important books were written and copied in Timbuktu, establishing the city as the centre of a significant written tradition in Africa.

Answer 2

Timbuktu is a city in Mali, which is an African nation. It was an important center of Islamic scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries. It remains an important trading center, and retains a romantic association as an exotic locale.

Answer 3

"Timbuktu (also known as Tombouctou) is a city located near the Niger River in the African country of Mali. Timbuktu has a population of approximately 30,000 and is a major Saharan Desert trading post."

Answer 4

Always try Wikipedia. See link below. It is in Mali, and it is spelled "Timbuktu".

Answer 5

Timbuktu is in Mali which is a West African nation.

Answer 6

Timbukto is in africa. Its actually "Timbo- kitu" timbo means new and kitu means insect......... original african tribes found some new kind of insects in this area n hence named it ' timbo- kitu' which over the years became timbuktu!

Answer 7

have to agree with johnjohn on this one. timbukto is next to BFE

Answer 8

right next to BFE and you spelled it right!

Answer 9

http://www.footlooseadventure.co.uk/mali.html