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Away from the centre of the city, on one side of a large empty area, is ...
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... the Mahamane Alassane Haidata Grammar School .. built on the site of the
Ancient Sankore University in Timbuktu .. it has around 35 teachers and 750 students.
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Directly opposite the school is ...
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... the Sankore Mosque, which today is a small university that has preserved some of the
precious ancient manuscripts that were saved from the Moroccan invasion of 1591.
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