Timbuktu website
Timbuktu, a city of France, is located in the western African country, in the southern part of the desert, about 8 miles away from the Niger River, equivalent to 13 km. The city established the Tuareg Bedouins and used them as a seasonal camp for them in the year 1100 AD, and historically Timbuktu was of great importance; Because it was a center of Islamic culture, and a commercial center on the road to caravans in the desert, but for the time being, Timbuktu is the administrative center of Mali, and is home to 54,453 people, according to estimates in the year 2009 AD.
History of Timbuktu
Timbuktu was once a seasonal settlement, then it became a permanent settlement by the twelfth century. As Timbuktu was a prosperous city that was controlled by many such as: the Tuareg tribes, the Mali Empire, and the Songhai Empire, in addition to being an Islamic center, it was also a flourishing center for the gold and salt trade, It should be noted that Timbuktu was at the height of its commercial and intellectual development in the period ranging from 1493AD to 1591AD, when it had approximately 25,000 scientists, and after this period Morocco besieged it and the city began to decline, and in 1894AD France controlled the city, then it became part of a state Financial In the year 1960 AD.
Information about the city of Timbuktu
We mention here some varied information about the city of Timbuktu, which are:
- Timbuktu was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.
- Several artifacts have been discovered indicating that Timbuktu has been inhabited since the Iron Age, that is, in the fifth century BC.
- Timbuktu was home to architectural miracles such as shrines and mosques between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- In 2012, the city faced a number of extremist fighters who destroyed the shrines and tombs.
