Tanta

The older name of the city is Tandata (Arabic: طندتا) which comes from its Coptic name ⲧⲁⲛⲧⲁⲑⲟ^[8] (late Coptic [dɑnˈdɑto]).

With its large cotton plantations, in 1856, Tanta became a stop on the railway network, primarily for the benefit of exporting its cotton to European markets.^[9] The area around Tanta was mostly fields but Tanta had grown into a large crowded city.^[10]

This city is a center of celebration in late October at the end of the cotton harvest. Three million people,^[3] from around the Delta and other parts of the Arab world, come for the Moulid of Sayid Ahmed el-Badawi,^[11] which is a colorful,^[12] religious, eight-day celebration. The moulid is centered around the mosque and tomb of Sayid Ahmad al-Badawi,^[13] who founded one of Egypt's largest Sufi orders known as Ahmadiyyah or Badawiyya.^[14] He was born in Morocco, but emigrated to Arabia, and later was sent to Tanta in AD 1234 as a representative of the order from Iraq. He was granted permission to start a new order in Tanta and it soon flourished into one of Egypt's largest Sufi brotherhoods.^[11]

Tanta is famous for its sweet candy made of gelatin, coconut, sesame, peanuts, and chickpeas. Large quantities are sold during the mulid (Arabic: المولد) festivals when many Egyptians visit the city.^[15] The sweets have been considered a delicacy since the 1800s.^[16]

Tanta has many cotton processing factories and textile industries,^[11] and is also a university town with Tanta University since 1972.^[17]

The people of Tanta are called by Egyptian slang Tantawi.^[18][19]

• Montazah garden
• Tanta stadium
• Tanta sporting club
• Tanta teachers club
• Tanta University
• Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox church, which is over 200 years old^[20]
• Saint George Cathedral
• Saint Peter Catholic basilica
• The Museum of Tanta contains items from ancient nearby sites of Sais, Naucratis, and Buto, such as pottery and statues.^[21][22]
• El Mahallah is a large industrial town near Tanta, famous for its textiles.^[11]

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  Tanta's city center, Elgeish street.
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  Tanta's railway station at night
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  Mosque of Elsayyed Elbadawi
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  Saint George Cathedral Church
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  Tanta Railway Station
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  palace in Tanta which was used as a primary school named flowers school
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  Tanta Montaza park
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  Tanta museum
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  Tanta university administration
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  Sweets from Tanta

As all of Egypt, has a hot desert climate (BWh), according to Köppen-Geiger climate classification system.

• Magda al-Sabahi or Magda Sabbahi = Magda (1931–2020) actress
• Huda Sultan (1925–2006) singer and actress
• Kamal Amin (1923–1979), artist^[24]
• Mahmoud Zulfikar (1914–1970), Film director
• Khairy Beshara, film director
• Abdu al-Hamuli (Arabic: عبده الحامولى‎) (1836–1901), singer
• Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, (1917–1980) reciter of the Qur'an^[25]
• Mohamed Fawzi (1918–1966), composer, singer, and actor^[26]
• Naima Akef (1929–1966), actress and circus player
• Doria Shafik (1908–1975), leader of the Women's Liberation Movement in the early 1950s^[27]
• Ahmed Hijazi (1936–2011), known as "Hegazy", a caricature artist^[28]
• Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), thinker and liberal theologian ^[29]
• Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962–2018), author^[30]
• Amina Rizk (1910–2003), actress
• El-Sayed Nosseir (1905–1977), Olympic Gold medal winner in weightlifting^[31]
• Hilana Sedarous first female Egyptian doctor and first female Egyptian gynaecologist
• Maximos V Hakim, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch^[32]
• Nabil Farouk, novelist^[33][34]

• List of cities and towns in Egypt
• Nile Delta
• Egyptian festivals

• Egypt: Handbook for Travellers : Part First, Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai by Karl Baedeker (1885)
• Families as We are: Conversations from Around the World by Perdita Huston, 2001
• The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information by Hugh Chisholm, 1910
• The Coptic Diocese of Tanta