Tantah
a town of lower Egypt; on the railway about 50 miles N. of Cairo.
It has many large public buildings, besides a palace of the Khedive, and is celebrated in connection with the Great Moslem saint Seyvidel-Bedawi, to whom a Seyyidel-Bedawi, to whom a mosque is here erected. Tantah has three great annual fairs, which are held in January, April, and August, and at the latter 500,000 persons are said to congregate from the surrounding countries. Pop. about 74,000 .