Is there really a place called timbucktoo?

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zamblast

Was a centre of learning commerce and culture now situtated in Mali. It's influence wained after being sacked by Moroccan marauders and it's importance as a trade route diminished by the establishment of Portunguese shipping routes from Central Africa to Europe.

kwb1965

You're talking about the TIMBUCTOO near SACRAMENTO, that's why you posted the question in the Sacramento section.
TIMBUCTOO is located about 45 mi. north (as the crow flies) from Sacramento. It is located on State Route 20 between Marysville and Grass Valley, in Yuba County. It looks, from my atlas, that it is in the geographical zone where the Central Valley meets the Sierra foothills.

zipperfootpress

yep there is in mali I think....I also think its spelled Timbuktu though

Papa Dom

I think it's Timbuktu, and yes there is.

...

Yes its in Mali.

-Laila

George Y

As a kid, we visited Timbuctoo (pardon the spelling) or the remains of that town. It was a small mining town in the Sierras and is now represented by just a couple of crumbling buildings.

theflash2k8

No but there is a place in West Africa called Timbuktu. If it's in Scotland now they must have moved it LOL

pyralynne

I searched it online and the one I found is spelled timbuktu.

dragonsong

Yes.

Timbuktu (Archaic English: Timbuctoo; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; French: Tombouctou) is a city in Tombouctou Region, Mali. It is home to the prestigious 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 MandГ© people, and is about 15 km north of the River Niger. It is also at the intersection of an eastвЂ“west and a northвЂ“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.

fivetoze

Yep, that's right.

Salt. It seems, back in the day, salt was one of the most precious commodities on Earth, right up there with gold. And it turns out that the African city of Timbuctoo (now located in the country of Mali) had plenty of both. That made it the center of West African commerce for several centuries, and built the city's reputation for wealth.

been_here_and_gone

Yes. Hence the phrase: From here to Timbuktu.

Crazy Train

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali.

Paula R

Timbuktu, also spelled TOMBOUCTOU, is a city in the West African nation of Mali

ANTONY R

timbucktoo is a town in central mali on the river
niger. french name tombouctou.

EyeCan'tDecide

oh yes

*****

Indeed there is, it is a city in Mali, in W.Africa.

dot&carryone.

South Western Sahara, Africa

Yes, in Mali, Central Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu

gnarlyness

yes

thanimalay@btinternet.com

Timbucktoo, or Timbuktu is a city in the West Nation of Mali. On the Southern edge of the Sahara Desert, about 8 miles North of the Niger river

Luke Warnes

Yes, in Mali, according to Google maps it's now spelt "Tombouctou"

Muledancer

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