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Motorola announced in mid-2009 that Timbuktu v9.0 would be released for "early preview" in Q4 2009, [7] featuring full Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 compatibility for selected customers and v9.0 was released in early 2011, with minor bugfix updates since. Version 9.1 for Windows apparently made it to pre-beta testing but was never ...
English: Timbuktu, preferred method of transport, Mali, W. Africa, The team of donkeys walks past the mud mosque laden with with their heavy items of transport. The mud wall's protruding wood beams and the relaxed gait of the animals and people add to the gentle scene.
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Timbuktu has many adobe and mud brick buildings but the most famous is the university. The masajids (mosques) of Sankore, Djinguereber, and Sidi Yahya were the centres of learning in medieval Mali and produced some of the most famous works in Africa, the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Timbuktu is a city in Mali with very distinguishable architecture.
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The construction of the mosque of Sidi Yahya, sometimes written Sidi Yahia, began in 1400 by Sheikh El-Mokhtar Hamalla. [4] The Sidi Yahya mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Timbuktu and holds special significance: when the Touareg under their leader Akil took control of Timbuktu in 1433, they gave the chieftaincy to Mohammed Naddi, a Senhaja from Chinguetti who commissioned the mosque. [2]
The results of the Gao research were published in two monographs, [10] many other publications, and presented in an exhibition, Medieval Trading Cities of the Niger: Gao and Timbuktu, [11] in the John Addis Gallery at the British Museum (1998–1999), and subsequently formed part of the permanent display in the Musée Nationale, Bamako, Mali.