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Timbuktu

The Malian desert city of the Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia mosques and sixteen mausoleums of saints, inscribed in 1988 as a centre of Islamic learning and of the trans-Saharan…

16.8, -3.0 · approximate · Founded c. 5th century CE, flourishing 15th–16th centuries; inscribed 1988; danger listed 1990–2005 and again from 2012; mausoleums destroyed 2012; reconstruction from 2014

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  • listed on List of World Heritage in DangerDanger listed in 2012 after fourteen of the sixteen inscribed mausoleums were deliberately destroyed during the occupation of northern Mali. No removal decision was found in this research, so the listing is treated as continuing.

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