Timbuktu .. City legend, Bride of the desert and the cradle of Western civilization AU, which began before a thousand years ago, I knew this city, science and commerce It is a city frequented by tourists from all over the world in order to stand on the ruins of the city myth, which was filled with literary books in a variety of world cultures, as has become her name «Timbuktu» example of hits for each remote and distant. Today hardly find a European one, does not know the jewel that delve into the middle of the desert sands Alozoadah north of the Republic of Mali, pleased Wazzan himself who was fascinated «Pettmbactu» he says: It is the region that erupted where Sbapth, where Oars them and had them Mnadmat, not forgotten her tile Pope in Rome, and his trips to Constantinople or Cairo, as the saying: access to Tmpetko is the secret of secrets, it was Forum convoys that connects the people of Africa to the west and east, and access was in itself means a kind of adventure, where not linked to any of the capitals trade any famous who frequented stations.
The capital of the flag
There is no doubt that the more they bloom by Tmpetko at that time is the only trade more than anything else, but the importance of increased day after day, when he came to the part of that property, capital of science, became where this mating which make it in the ranks of the major cities of age at the time Kqahirh goats, and Astana, and Fez and other cities.
Some believe that so much activity doubled after the fall of the last strongholds of al-Andalus, a kingdom of Granada, has been Tmpetko with excellence so steadfast in front of all the horrors that have always ridden at the hands of private owners.
Etymology
Promises to start, was founded «Tin Pictou» and not «Timbuktu» a common mistake, in the early fifth century AH corresponding to the year 1080 AD, and therefore (ie established) story, which is that the Tuareg were living during the rainy season throughout Sahraúhm and return in periods of drought to the fertile areas around the famous River Niger, which pushed them to choose the site Tinbactu shoe pagan River Niger, as a place suitable for storing food reserves. The site was inhabited by an old woman from the Tuareg tribe of «Aamqhern» PETCO name, and it named the place b «Tin» sense (place) «Pictou». Has been Tmpetko initially a camp Touareg, then turned with the passage of days to the village, and have been growing steadily to be transformed thanks to the location of the crossroads of trade routes to the city frequented by thousands of traders and visitors; reached the peak in the beginning of the fourteenth century, where extracted and all deserved position in the large cities of that era such as «and ath» in Mauritania and «Brno» in Ghana, which were of the most important markets in the West African trade at the time.
Growth and prosperity
Timbuktu has begun to draw attention to it as a center of scientific radiation after King Back Almending «Mensa Musa» of the famous pilgrimage by the year 1325 and distributed in a way to thousands upon thousands of gold bullion, particularly in Cairo. Causing the decline in gold prices, has ordered the Sultan poet from Granada, nicknamed Balshilla design a great collector and supervision (the collector is Tinpetko based to this day), and that was the first nucleus to build a scientific edifice in Tinpetko where became with the passage of days a center for science, private donation woman Srkolo (one of the tribes of Finance) to build another mosque later, science has flourished with students flocked from North and West Africa on Tinpetko, has been helped by the lavish spending done by the traders on the role of science was the coolest mating between money and knowledge of the bride in the desert.
Silk and Spice
Was silk, spices and red copper of the most popular goods in Tinbactu is proud goods minimum where traders were bartering their Bdaúg kingdom of Mali luxury famous kings sultans gold. Tinpetko was more than the cities of Africa, which exported diamonds, gold, ivory and ostrich feathers, in addition to the salt desert "Azawad" who was famous convoys until our time, and was impressed Europeans.
Buyers had salt jumping from Tmpetko in convoys usually includes more than 300 sentences authentic walks the distance of the month at home and away in the desert «Azaouad» inflamed, which is not water, no grass or under it, then returning them plates of rock salt crystal from «Todney» It's actually trauma myths and dreams, as described by one of them.
Perhaps the biggest number of tourists who are turning their divinely from Germany, Japan, America and Canada.
Desertification
Lying Timbuktu along the Niger River, which wraps them from the south, and the phenomenon of desertification in this city a significant impact devastating, where covered sand vegetation that surrounded the city and bridged Flaa river with a length of about 7 km, which reaches the city reaches of the main river Niger, which was easy to transfer goods to the heart of the city by river navigation.
In spite of the exploitation of the government's financial reputation historic wide of the city to bring Western tourists, but the share of infrastructure projects is negligible, thus the impact on tourism in the city itself, this as well as the resulting manifestations of poverty and misery, and in spite of this gloomy picture However, the Tnpetko seem always proud and a source of pride and pleasure if we look at the reality of cultural, as it is one of the few regions in the world that has maintained the kind of cultural Alkuzmosa, where managed city smelting several cultures in one pot, to make them their culture, which is rarely found in a place last. Residents Tnpetko mostly fluent in seven languages, and means that the seven living cultures mingled through the history of the peoples of the region, namely: the Tuareg, Arabs, and Filan, and Bambara, and Alsngaa, in addition to the French as an official language.
The capital of the flag
There is no doubt that the more they bloom by Tmpetko at that time is the only trade more than anything else, but the importance of increased day after day, when he came to the part of that property, capital of science, became where this mating which make it in the ranks of the major cities of age at the time Kqahirh goats, and Astana, and Fez and other cities.
Some believe that so much activity doubled after the fall of the last strongholds of al-Andalus, a kingdom of Granada, has been Tmpetko with excellence so steadfast in front of all the horrors that have always ridden at the hands of private owners.
Etymology
Promises to start, was founded «Tin Pictou» and not «Timbuktu» a common mistake, in the early fifth century AH corresponding to the year 1080 AD, and therefore (ie established) story, which is that the Tuareg were living during the rainy season throughout Sahraúhm and return in periods of drought to the fertile areas around the famous River Niger, which pushed them to choose the site Tinbactu shoe pagan River Niger, as a place suitable for storing food reserves. The site was inhabited by an old woman from the Tuareg tribe of «Aamqhern» PETCO name, and it named the place b «Tin» sense (place) «Pictou». Has been Tmpetko initially a camp Touareg, then turned with the passage of days to the village, and have been growing steadily to be transformed thanks to the location of the crossroads of trade routes to the city frequented by thousands of traders and visitors; reached the peak in the beginning of the fourteenth century, where extracted and all deserved position in the large cities of that era such as «and ath» in Mauritania and «Brno» in Ghana, which were of the most important markets in the West African trade at the time.
Growth and prosperity
Timbuktu has begun to draw attention to it as a center of scientific radiation after King Back Almending «Mensa Musa» of the famous pilgrimage by the year 1325 and distributed in a way to thousands upon thousands of gold bullion, particularly in Cairo. Causing the decline in gold prices, has ordered the Sultan poet from Granada, nicknamed Balshilla design a great collector and supervision (the collector is Tinpetko based to this day), and that was the first nucleus to build a scientific edifice in Tinpetko where became with the passage of days a center for science, private donation woman Srkolo (one of the tribes of Finance) to build another mosque later, science has flourished with students flocked from North and West Africa on Tinpetko, has been helped by the lavish spending done by the traders on the role of science was the coolest mating between money and knowledge of the bride in the desert.
Silk and Spice
Was silk, spices and red copper of the most popular goods in Tinbactu is proud goods minimum where traders were bartering their Bdaúg kingdom of Mali luxury famous kings sultans gold. Tinpetko was more than the cities of Africa, which exported diamonds, gold, ivory and ostrich feathers, in addition to the salt desert "Azawad" who was famous convoys until our time, and was impressed Europeans.
Buyers had salt jumping from Tmpetko in convoys usually includes more than 300 sentences authentic walks the distance of the month at home and away in the desert «Azaouad» inflamed, which is not water, no grass or under it, then returning them plates of rock salt crystal from «Todney» It's actually trauma myths and dreams, as described by one of them.
Perhaps the biggest number of tourists who are turning their divinely from Germany, Japan, America and Canada.
Desertification
Lying Timbuktu along the Niger River, which wraps them from the south, and the phenomenon of desertification in this city a significant impact devastating, where covered sand vegetation that surrounded the city and bridged Flaa river with a length of about 7 km, which reaches the city reaches of the main river Niger, which was easy to transfer goods to the heart of the city by river navigation.
In spite of the exploitation of the government's financial reputation historic wide of the city to bring Western tourists, but the share of infrastructure projects is negligible, thus the impact on tourism in the city itself, this as well as the resulting manifestations of poverty and misery, and in spite of this gloomy picture However, the Tnpetko seem always proud and a source of pride and pleasure if we look at the reality of cultural, as it is one of the few regions in the world that has maintained the kind of cultural Alkuzmosa, where managed city smelting several cultures in one pot, to make them their culture, which is rarely found in a place last. Residents Tnpetko mostly fluent in seven languages, and means that the seven living cultures mingled through the history of the peoples of the region, namely: the Tuareg, Arabs, and Filan, and Bambara, and Alsngaa, in addition to the French as an official language.
Source: Journal of the environment - Environment Public Authority - Issue 142