timbuktu in English
noun
1
a town in northern Mali; population 35,600 (est. 2009). Formerly a major trading center for gold and salt on the trans-Saharan trade routes, it reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th century but fell into decline after its capture by the Moroccans in 1591.
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1. Well Anyhoo, most of not all can and bottle recycling has been centralized at the Bottle Drop location, located in sunny Timbuktu.
2. The river loses nearly two-thirds of its potential flow in the Inner Delta between Ségou and Timbuktu to seepage and evaporation.
3. Unlike North and West Africa, home of such great "library cities" as Tunis, Fez, and Timbuktu, Mauritania never had large sedentary population centers.http://Sentencedict.com