What was the city of Timbuktu best known for?

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aielliot
Jul 26, 2016

For being remote. Although it has a number of important Mosques, it was known in the western culture as being one of the most remote places that one could go.

Explanation:

At the end of the Disney animated movie "Aristocats" a villian is sent off to Timbuktu. There are other cultural examples.

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