Rising out of Western Sahara, which city in Mali is sometimes used as a synonym for "a far away place"?

If you've ever said the phrase, "From here to Timbuktu," you may not have known that Timbuktu is a real place in the country of Mali. The 12th-century city flourished when trade routes were developed there, and it later became part of the Mali Empire.

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