BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

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The Sankore Mosque in

Timbuktu, founded in

AD 989. By the time of Leo

Africanus’s visit in 1510,

the city was hugely

wealthy, and boasted

some 25,000 scholars

among its population of

more than 100,000

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