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The legendary gold-and-salt city at the edge of the Sahara that sent scholars to Mecca

Original caption: "Vue d'une partie de la ville de Temboctou, prise du sommet d'une colline, à l'Est-Nord-Est." Timbuktu looking west. Caillié had visited Timbuktu is 1828. Three mosques are depicted.
View of Timbuktu showing three mosques. Caillié visited in 1828. © René Caillié (1799-1838), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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