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Despite its illustrious history, as of 2009 Timbuktu was an impoverished town, poor even by Third World standards. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] The population grew an average 5.7% per year from 29,732 in 1998 to 54,453 in 2009. [ 77 ]
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Timbuktu looking west, René Caillié (1830) View of Timbuktu, Heinrich Barth (1858) Over the centuries, the spelling of Timbuktu has varied a great deal: from Tenbuch on the Catalan Atlas (1375), to traveller Antonio Malfante 's Thambet , used in a letter he wrote in 1447 and also adopted by Alvise Cadamosto in his Voyages of Cadamosto , to ...
During his visit to Timbuktu in 1895 the French journalist Félix Dubois learnt of the chronicle but was unable to obtain a copy. [2] Most copies of the manuscript had been destroyed early in the 19th century by the order of the Fula [3] leader Seku Amadu, but in 1911 an old manuscript was located in Timbuktu that was missing some of the initial pages.
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The ICC, the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, has been examining events in Mali since 2012. French and Malian troops pushed the rebels back the following year.
A biographical note was translated by M.A. Cherbonneau in 1855, [10] and became one of the principal texts for study of the legal history of the Western Sudan. [11] Ahmad Baba's surviving works remain the best sources for the study of al-Maghili and the generation that succeeded him. [ 12 ]