Timbuktu became a major centre of learning, manuscripts, and trade in West Africa.

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By the 14th–16th centuries Timbuktu was a hub of trade and scholarship, its libraries holding tens of thousands of manuscripts on faith, law and science.

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Timbuktu, Batı Afrika'da önemli bir öğrenim, el yazması ve ticaret merkezi hâline geldi.

14.–16. yüzyıllarda Timbuktu bir ticaret ve ilim merkeziydi; kütüphaneleri inanç, hukuk ve bilim üzerine on binlerce elyazması barındırıyordu.

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