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Timbuktu
[ tim-buhk-too, tim-buhk-too ]
Timbuktu
/ ˌtɪmbʌkˈtuː /
noun
- a town in central Mali, on the River Niger: terminus of a trans-Saharan caravan route; a great Muslim centre (14th–16th centuries). Pop: 31 973 (1998) French nameTombouctou
- any distant or outlandish place
from here to Timbuktu
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Perhaps inevitably, the women of Timbuktu were singled out for special persecution.
Lankester said that many of his Tuareg employees have left Timbuktu, Gao, and the surrounding cities.
Plus, Blake Gopnik on whether destroying Timbuktu's heritage is un-Islamic.
The other half are loaded with blocks of salt on the way, for salt is in great demand at Timbuktu.
What lovely things one could say about England, in Timbuktu!
But you boys told us all in Timbuktu that there was no El Hassan.
There was only one way that episode in Timbuktu could have taken place.
Timbuktu's day lasted but two or three hundred years at most.
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