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Places tagged “manuscript”

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🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city

Timbuktu (Sankore, Djingareyber & Sidi Yahya)

Medieval Sudanic (11th–17th c; peak 14th–16th c under Mali-Songhai) · Tuareg / Soninke / Malinke / Songhai / Berber / Moroccan (Arma)

Scholar caravan metropolis on Niger Bend with three 14th-c earthen Sudano-Sahelian mosques and 600,000-manuscript university Sankore.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Chinguetti

Medieval to Early Modern (13th–19th c; library peak 17th–18th c) · Berber / Arab / Alkhalid

13th c scholar-ksar with 20-m square minaret and 5 manuscript libraries 1400+ codices.