A place that is very far away.
Berber origin: Malian historian Sekene Cossoko proposes; the Tuareg founders of the city gave it a Berber name, a word composed of two parts: tin, the feminine form of in (place of) and boycott, a small dunes.
Hence, Timbuktu would mean "place covered by small dunes ".
According to one tradition.
Timbuktu was named for an old woman left to oversee the camp while the Tuareg roamed the Sahara.
Her name "mother with a large navel, " possibly describing an umbilical hernia or other such physical malady.
Go North 310 meters to see the free library
Under tree.