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This fabled trading city of the medieval Malian Empire was home to 25,000 Islamic scholars |
Timbuktu
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$1,600 |
DJ |
AFRICAN EMPIRES |
2022-02-25 |
#8585 |
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In 1828 explorer René Caillié became the first European to visit this city now in central Mali & to survive to tell the tale |
Timbuktu
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$4,000 |
DJ |
THE 1820s |
2019-09-09 |
#8046 |
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Alexander Laing's triumph of finding this Mali trading post in 1826 was short-lived; he was murdered a month later |
Timbuktu
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$2,000 |
DJ |
THE 1820s |
2016-06-15 |
#7323 |
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In August 1826 Gordon Laing became the first European to set foot in this Mali trading post |
Timbuktu
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$1,600 |
DJ |
19th CENTURY AFRICA |
2010-03-11 |
#5874 |
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This Mali trading post was rediscovered by Major Gordon Laing in 1826 |
Timbuktu
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$1,000 |
J |
19th CENTURY AFRICA |
2005-12-06 |
#4887 |
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In 1591 Morocco conquered this historic trading outpost in modern-day Mali |
Timbuktu
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$1,000 |
DJ |
THE 1590s |
1996-03-06 |
#2658 |