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Definition of Timbuktu

1. Noun. A city in central Mali near the Niger river; formerly famous for its gold trade.

Definition of Timbuktu

1. Proper noun. A city in central Mali. ¹

2. Proper noun. Any proverbially distant or remote place. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timbuktu

Literary usage of Timbuktu

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa by Heinrich Barth (1890)
"CHAPTER XXIL FIRST MONTH OF RESIDENCE IN timbuktu. IT had been arranged that, during the absence of the Sheikh el Bak£y, whose special guest I professed to ..."

2. Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa: The by Florence Ebam Etta, Sheila Parvyn-Wamahiu (2004)
"timbuktu The principal subject of this study is the multipurpose community telecentre (MCT) ... The timbuktu telecentre commenced as a joint project of the ..."

3. French Enterprise in Africa: The Personal Narrative of Lieut. Hourst of His by Hourst, Émile Auguste Léon Hourst, Nancy R. E. Meugens Bells (1898)
"The port was blocked with big canoes made of planks tied together in the manner already described, A MOSQUE AT timbuktu. and a brisk trade in salt and grain ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The industries of timbuktu — cotton-weaving, earthenware, leather-work and embroidery — are of subordinate importance, and the great bulk of the people are ..."

5. Heroes of North African Discovery by N. D'Anvers (1877)
"Joining a vast caravan, which included some six hundred camels, he left timbuktu on the 4th May, and, bearing due north, passed the scene of Laing's murder ..."

6. The Partition of Africa by John Scott Keltie (1895)
"... and Liberia—Expeditions to Lake Chad—French in timbuktu—British activity on the Lower Niger —Pioneers—Obstacles to trade—A Company formed—The French on ..."

7. Carpenter's Geographical Reader; Africa by Frank George Carpenter (1905)
"THE UPPER NIGER —timbuktu AND JENNE WE are traveling this morning up the great river Niger toward timbuktu, the chief trading center of the French Sudan. ..."

8. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Charles Raymond Beazley (1899)
"(13) From 1434 to 1469, the Tuareg regained possession of timbuktu, ... (15) From the fourteenth century timbuktu was the intellectual capital of. the Sudan ..."

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