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Timbuktu

Trade route stop, Mali.

About Timbuktu

City in Mali. Listed with UNESCO World Heritage id 119rev (Wikidata).1

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An example ofSar-e-Sang, BadakhshanAnother trade-route town, in Afghanistan: Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan.1An example ofHotanAnother trade-route town, in China: Hotan.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q9427 (Timbuktu)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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