ibn-Batuta

British

/ ˌɪbənbæˈtuːtɑː /

noun

1304–?68, Arab traveller, who wrote the Rihlah, an account of his travels (1325–54) in Africa and Asia

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The name of the country was probably derived from its chief city of Jenné, variously described by Leo Africanus, in the sixteenth century, as a large village; by the earlier geographers—especially Edrisi in the twelfth century, and Ibn-Batuta in the fourteenth—as a spacious and well-built city on an island in the Niger, lying west from Timbuktu.

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