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.
 The area around Tanta was mostly  fields   but Tanta had grown into a large crowded city.

Tanta is known for its sweets .
Sweets are sold all the year.
Large quantites of sweets are sold when large numbers of Egyptians visit the city, during the mulid (Arabic: المولد‎) festivals.

This city is a center of celebration in late October at the end of the cotton harvest.
Three million people, from around the Delta and other parts of the Arab world, come for the Moulid of Sayid Ahmed el-Badawi, which is a colorful, religious, eight-day celebration.
The moulid is centered around the mosque and tomb of Sayid Ahmad al-Badawi.
He founded one of Egypt's largest Sufi orders called Ahmadiyyah or Badawiyya.
He was born in Morocco, but emigrated to Arabia and was sent to Tanta in 1234 as a representative of the order from Iraq.
He was given permission to start a new order in Tanta and it soon flourished into "one of Egypt's largest Sufi brotherhoods".
Tanta is famous of  sweet candy of gelatin , coconut , sesame,  peanuts ,and chickpeas .They have been considered a delicacy since the 1800s.

Tanta has cotton ginning factories and textile industries, and is also a university town with Tanta University since 1972.

The people of Tanta are called by Egyptian slang Tantawi.
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.  The area around Tanta was mostly  fields   but Tanta had grown into a large crowded city. 
Tanta is known for its sweets . Sweets are sold all the year. Large quantites of sweets are sold when large numbers of Egyptians visit the city, during the mulid (Arabic: المولد‎) festivals. 
This city is a center of celebration in late October at the end of the cotton harvest. Three million people, from around the Delta and other parts of the Arab world, come for the Moulid of Sayid Ahmed el-Badawi, which is a colorful, religious, eight-day celebration. The moulid is centered around the mosque and tomb of Sayid Ahmad al-Badawi. He founded one of Egypt's largest Sufi orders called Ahmadiyyah or Badawiyya. He was born in Morocco, but emigrated to Arabia and was sent to Tanta in 1234 as a representative of the order from Iraq. He was given permission to start a new order in Tanta and it soon flourished into "one of Egypt's largest Sufi brotherhoods". Tanta is famous of  sweet candy of gelatin , coconut , sesame,  peanuts ,and chickpeas .They have been considered a delicacy since the 1800s.
Tanta has cotton ginning factories and textile industries, and is also a university town with Tanta University since 1972.
The people of Tanta are called by Egyptian slang Tantawi.
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