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[a] At least four possible origins of the name of Timbuktu have been described: Songhay origin: both Leo Africanus and Heinrich Barth believed the name was derived from two Songhay words: [4] Leo Africanus writes the Kingdom of Tombuto was named after a town of the same name, founded in 1213 or 1214 by Mansa Sulayman. [5]
After the scramble for Africa had been formalized in the Berlin Conference, land between the 14th meridian west and Miltou, South-West Chad, became French territory, bounded in the south by a line running from Say, Niger to Baroua. Although the Timbuktu region was now French in name, the principle of effective occupation required France to ...
Timbuktu Manuscripts, or Tombouctou Manuscripts, is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali.
The Berber author of Ta'rikh al-Sudan, Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di, recorded the oral tradition surrounding the origin of the Mali. He states, "Mali is the name of an extensive territory lying in the far west (of the Sudan) to the direction of the Ocean. It was Kaya-Magha who founded the first kingdom in that region.
There are some obvious problems with the text published by Houdas and Delafosse. The biographical information for Mahmud Kati (in Manuscript C only) suggests that he was born in 1468, while the other important 17th century chronicle, the Tarikh al-Sudan, gives the year of his death (or someone with the same name) as 1593.
By 1583 he was a prominent enough leader that he served as de facto Qadi of Timbuktu after the death of Al-Qadi Aqib ibn Mahmud ibn Umar, issuing judgments in front of the Sidi Yahya Mosque. [5] Bagayogo, with most of the rest of Timbuktu, backed the Balma'a' s rebellion against Askia Muhammad Bani in 1588, but survived the purges led by his ...
What's The Saying is a fun and challenging game that will put your brain to work. The object of the game is to match a common phrase with an accompanying coded image. These will test even the most ...
Daggatun was a nomad tribe of Jewish origin living in the ... (whose name may perhaps be derived ... who in 1857 journeyed through the Sahara to Timbuktu, [4] [5 ...