Atlas Entry

Timbuktu

Ụbọchị
founded 5th century CE; height 15th–16th century

Ụdị ihe akaebe: Documented history

Ọ dịbeghị na Asụsụ Igbo. Na-egosi nke mbụ n'asụsụ English.

A city at the edge of the Sahara in present-day Mali that became an intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the Sankore university, many Qur’anic schools and a busy trade in salt, gold and manuscripts.

Example: its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, built of earth and regularly restored.