Tanta, an important town and railway junction of Lower Egypt, between the Rosetta and Danietta branches of the Nile, with a famous mosque, a great fair, and a pop. of (1897) 57,289.
Tanta
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 61
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