Northern African Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Northern African.
type
usage
origin
Tataouine (Settlement) French, English
From Tamazight Tittawin, possibly from tit meaning "eye". This is a city in Tunisia. It is the source of the name of the desert planet Tatooine from the fictional Star Wars universe.
Tatawin (Settlement) Arabic
Arabic form of Tataouine.
Timbuktu (Settlement) English, Arabic, Bamileke
Meaning uncertain. It could be derived from Songhai meaning "hollow, hole", or from Berber meaning "place of small dunes". This is the name of a city in central Mali. Descriptions of the city's wealth and remoteness first reached Europe from the 16th-century Berber author Leo Africanus. Since then the city has been used in Western Culture as a symbol for a distant, mysterious place.
Tittawin (Settlement) Berber
Tamazight form of Tataouine.
Tombouctou (Settlement) French
French form of Timbuktu.
Tombuctú (Settlement) Spanish
Spanish form of Timbuktu.
Tumbutu (Settlement) Koyra Chiini
Koyra Chiini form of Timbuktu.