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Dates[edit]

Could someone add dates to the article?

When was "its zenith"?Lele giannoni (talk) 16:07, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Current Day[edit]

So what happened to it? Is it still around? When did it shut down, and why??24.42.68.193 (talk) 02:17, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There were four mosques built in Timbuktu at its peak as a trading city. When the town was rich, the mosques could support scholars. Around the 1500s or so, people from Morocco conquered the city starting its decline. The land trade routes across the Sahara desert ceased to be important when shipping up and down the African coast took off. The city got poor, the scholars left and the mosques reverted to being ordinary mosques. 75.17.126.185 (talk) 02:26, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Citations needed[edit]

I added {{citation needed}} to a few spots where facts were not backed up by reliable sources or where cause-and-effect -type statements were given where the cause-and-effect relationship was not backed up by a reliable source.

Please do not assume I tagged everything that needed tagging. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 02:20, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In fact the entire article lacks a single credible source. Is any of it actually true?

Bits and pieces are true. Timbuktu (the city) got rich on trade going across the Sahara. The Mosques in the city developed as centers of learning and collected lots of written "books". While the city was rich, there was a strong community of scholars and intellectuals. But there was no "university". 02:44, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Possible request for Deletion[edit]

This article is based off of one site that is of dubious quality. It needs to either be merged into a parent article of removed completely as it contributes nothing to the encyclopedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.100.131.106 (talk) 22:48, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

this article should be deleted[edit]

The content is all questionable and really unsourced. The only sources for this sort of thing are questionable historical accounts which amount to semi-mythology. 75.17.126.185 (talk) 02:21, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]